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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.
A cork oak forest is seen in Portugal's Alentejo region. / Credit: CBS News/Duarte Dias Oliveira is the director of Amorim's forestry division, which is responsible for the research and practices ...
Humid oak grove with Cork Oaks. Forests of Holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) form natural forests in most of the Mediterranean region as well as penetrating into the warmer sun-exposed areas and hillsides of the Atlantic region; they extend from sea level, with the subspecies ilex, to an elevation of 1400 metres, in some mountains and high plains ...
The forest's vegetation includes a plethora of major plant species and rare species, including oak, pine, eucalyptus, acacia, carob, camphor, cypress, thuya, wild olive, as well as the cork oak. [5] It is the dominant species in the forest, covering about half of the total surface area in Maamora and distributed over 60000 ha, making the ...
The region is home to the world's most important area for the growing of cork. Cork oak, known in Portugal as "sobreiro", has been grown commercially in the region for the past 300 years, with the areas between the trees typically given over to grazing, or on the more productive soils, to the growing of citrus fruit, vines or olives.
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.
The ecoregion's plant communities include: Evergreen oak forests, with cork oak (Quercus suber) and holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) as the predominant canopy trees, and an evergreen understory of low trees and high shrubs that include Laurus nobilis, Arbutus unedo, Erica arborea, Erica scoparia, Ilex aquifolium, Phillyrea latifolia, Phillyrea angustifolia, Viburnum tinus, Cytisus villosus, and ...
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 ...