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Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris.It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls.
Quercus variabilis, the Chinese cork oak, is a species of oak in the section Quercus sect. Cerris, native to a wide area of eastern Asia in southern, central, and eastern China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.
Cork tree or corktree may refer to: Cork oak, Quercus suber, the tree from which most cork is harvested; Chinese cork oak, Quercus variabilis, a tree from which cork is occasionally harvested; Cork-tree, a species of Phellodendron; Euonymus phellomanus, a large deciduous shrub with corky “wings” Indian cork tree, Millingtonia hortensis
Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...
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– Chinkapin oak – eastern, central, and southwestern US (West Texas and New Mexico), northern Mexico; Quercus ningqiangensis S.Z.Qu & W.H.Zhang – southeastern China; Quercus oblongifolia Torr. – Arizona blue oak, Southwestern blue oak, or Mexican blue oak – # southwestern U.S., northwestern Mexico; Quercus obtusata Bonpl. – Mexico
The taxon was first described as the species Quercus hispanica by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1785. As of October 2024, Plants of the World Online treated it as the hybrid between the European species Quercus cerris (Turkey oak) and Quercus suber (cork oak) using the hybrid name Quercus × hispanica. [1]
Quercus × crenata is a tree in the family Fagaceae.Its taxonomic status is uncertain, as sources vary how they treat it. As of October 2024, Plants of the World Online treated Quercus × crenata as a synonym of Quercus × hispanica, and hence as a hybrid between the European trees Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) and cork oak (Quercus suber).