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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 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 gemelliflora Blume – # Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam; Quercus gilva Blume – # Japan, Taiwan, China; Quercus glauca Thunb. – ring-cupped oak – # from Afghanistan to Japan and Vietnam; Quercus gomeziana A.Camus – # Vietnam; Quercus gracilenta Chun – China (Guangdong) Quercus helferiana A.DC. – # China, India, Burma/Myanmar ...
Acorns from Quercus acutissima. Quercus acutissima is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 25–30 metres (82–98 feet) tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter.
Global Wood Density Database; National Hardwood and Lumber Association; American Hardwood Information Center; American Hardwood Export Council; Australian National Association of Forest Industries
Quercus macranthera, commonly called the Caucasian oak, or the Persian oak, is a species of deciduous tree native to Western Asia (northern Iran, Turkey; and in the Caucasus in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) [2] that is occasionally grown as an ornamental tree in Europe growing to 30 metres (98 feet) tall. [3]
Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas. [3]
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Atikamekw; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Беларуская; Беларуская ...