Basisdaten
description:
This medium sized tree is evergreen. Native is the oak tree in southern Europe and northern Africa. The bark of the cork oak has been used for hundreds of years to produce wine corks.
Tree profile
name botanical:
Quercus suber
family:
Beech family (Fagaceae)
species:
deciduous tree
height:
up to 20 m (66 ft)
leaf:
The leaf is green, elongated and the leaf margin is serrated.
leaf shape:
oblong
leaf margin:
toothed
leaf position:
alternate
fall foliage:
evergreen
gender distribution:
dioecious
bark:
The bark is corky.
location:
sun
soil:
porous soils
Oaks additional information
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