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unusual facts about Cork Oak



Black Iberian pig

The bulk of the acorn harvest comes from the holm oak (from November to February), but the season would be too short without the earlier harvests of Spanish oak and gall oak and the late cork oak season, which, between them, stretch the acorn-production period from September almost to April.

Los Alcornocales Natural Park

Forests and smaller wooded areas within the park are comprised mainly by cork oaks (Quercus suber), Portuguese oaks (Quercus faginea), Pyrenean oaks (Quercus pyrenaica), olive trees (Olea europaea), alders (Alnus glutinosa and Alnus incana incana), holly trees (Ilex aquifolium), bay laurels (Laurus nobilis), rhododendrons (Rhododendron ponticum), ferns, mosses, and lichens.

Save Miguel

Save Miguel is an international campaign starring Hollywood actor Rob Schneider and developed by Corticeira Amorim to defend natural cork and to appeal to the protection and preservation of cork oak forests.

Tell Atlas

As a consequence, the northern slopes of the Tell Atlas are forested with the endemic Abies numidica, and Atlas Cedar, pine, and cork oak.

William Lucombe

He later observed that these features occurred where both parents (Turkey Oak and Cork Oak) grew.


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