Quercus suber II

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Small cork oak with a visibly stripped trunk, part of the bark harvested and the underlying surface exposed.

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Quercus suber:
Evergreen Mediterranean oak, up to 25 m tall and living over 200 years, prized for its thick, corky bark. It is the backbone of the Portuguese montado — an open agro-silvo-pastoral woodland — and the only tree whose cork is harvested sustainably, stripped from the living trunk without felling: first at around 25 years of age, then roughly every nine years thereafter. Cork oak forests are one of the major plant communities of the western Mediterranean; the species is Portugal's national tree.

Common names:
EN — Cork oak
DE — Korkeiche
FR — Chêne-liège
ES — Alcornoque
PT — Sobreiro
IT — Sughera