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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.
Oak wood chips are used for smoking foods such as fish, meat, and cheese. [87] [88] In Japan, Children's Day is celebrated with Kashiwa-mochi rice cakes, filled with a sweet red bean paste, and wrapped in a kashiwa oak leaf. [89] The bark of the cork oak is used to produce cork stoppers for wine bottles.
Quercus hartwissiana Steven – Strandzha oak – southeastern Bulgaria, northern Turkey, western Georgia, southwestern Russia; Quercus havardii Rydb. – Havard oak, shinnery oak, shin oak – south central North America †Quercus hiholensis — Miocene — # Washington State [4] Quercus hinckleyi C.H.Mull. – Hinckley oak – # Texas ...
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 ...
In the 1700s, a young botanist scandalized some by discussing “birds and bees” of pollination, and awarding Latin names to plants and animals. Is that a ‘Quercus macrocarpa’ in the yard ...
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