Medium-sized evergreen oak of southern Europe and northern Africa having thick corky bark that is periodically stripped to yield commercial cork.
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Bark is carefully stripped from cork oak trees in Portugal's central-south Alentejo region.
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We built a house in a cork oak forest.
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The cork oak is one of the important trees.
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Environmentalists say cork oak forests are threatened by the rise in plastic stoppers and metal screw-tops.
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Sardinia possesses a cork oak, which yields 13 to 14 per cent.
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The Iberian Peninsula is home to some 42 species of birds that rely on the twisted cork oak forest for survival.
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These trees would, it is predicted, have a serious effect on the landscape because eucalyptus, unlike the cork oak, grows all year round.
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And did you know that the Quercus suber or cork oak, the one you see in southern France, Spain and elsewhere, grows in Ireland?
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WE go next to Lixus, a city nestled in a forest of cork oak trees so old that they saw the Carthaginians rise and fall.
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In nature, the unique cellular bark protects cork oaks from frequent forest fires.
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In the hills above Portimão, Portugal, the autumn sun beats down on a high winding road flanked by cork oaks and cypress and eucalyptus.
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(*The cork oak is mentioned in some works on Cyprus as indigenous to the island; this is a mistake.