Cork Oak (Quercus suber)

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  Erscheinungsbild

  The Cork Oak is an attractive evergreen leaf tree with thick cork-like bark that can be harvested every 7 years.

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  Blätter

  Evergreen, lanceolate or elliptic leaves. Size: 3-7 cm long, with four or five short teeth on each side. Leaves are dark green above, white or silvery below.

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  Blatt Oberseite

  Evergreen, lanceolate or elliptic leaves. Size: 3-7 cm long, with four or five short teeth on each side. Leaves are dark green above, white or silvery below.

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  Blatt Unterseite

  Evergreen, lanceolate or elliptic leaves. Size: 3-7 cm long, with four or five short teeth on each side. Leaves are dark green above, white or silvery below.

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  Früchte

  Acorns in groups of 1 to 3, upright. 2 to 3 cm long. The acorns are half enclosed in cups.

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  Rinde

  The young bark is yellow. Young branches are yellow and felted. The bark is very thick and cork-like. Trees can be debarked every 6 or 7 years to harvest the cork.

Anwendung

Open country, open fields, public areas, parks, kitchen gardens, front gardens, container plants, crop plant

Heimatgebiete

Mediterranean regions

Standortparameter

Light: sunny to off-sun.

Ansprüche

Demanding

Frosthärte

down to -15 C°

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Height of growth: 6 to 20 m, usually only reaches a height of 10 m. Stem is usually short and often crooked. Very broad, spreading crown.

Blätter

Evergreen, lanceolate or elliptic leaves. Size: 3-7 cm long, with four or five short teeth on each side. Leaves are dark green above, white or silvery below.

Blüten

Flowering period: III-IV. Female flowers are reddish, male flowers yellow-brown in striking catkins 5 to 10 cm long.

Früchte

Acorns in groups of 1 to 3, upright. 2 to 3 cm long. The acorns are half enclosed in cups.

Rinde

The young bark is yellow. Young branches are yellow and felted. The bark is very thick and cork-like. Trees can be debarked every 6 or 7 years to harvest the cork.