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unusual facts about Quercus lusitanica


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.



see also

Dyer's Oak

Gall Oak (Quercus lusitanica) of Morocco, Portugal, and Spain.