Botanical Name: Quercus suber
Common Name: Cork Oak
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape wide-spreading to rounded tree with dense, compact branch structure and thick corky bark
Height to 50'
Spread to 70'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun to partial shade
Soil tolerates most soils with good drainage
Hardiness hardy (zones 8-16, 18-23); takes desert conditions
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, alternate, ovate to 3" long, toothed margins dark glossy green above, grayish tomentose beneath
Flowers male flowers – drooping catkins, female flowers in short spikes
Fruit acorn to 2" long – cup encloses 1/3 to 1/2 of nut
 
Propagation:
seed – plant acorn when ripe
 
Usage:
shade tree for large areas – lawn tree, specimen tree – used commercially for cork production
 
Landscape Care:
Watering takes regular watering – will grow in a lawn
Fertilizing none after established
Pruning little needed – control size and shape only
Pests/Diseases may show chlorosis in alkaline soils; children carving bark
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Europe/Africa
Family: Fagaceae

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