{"id":12633,"date":"2020-11-10T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/species\/quercus-suber-l\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:02:27","slug":"quercus-suber-l","status":"publish","type":"species","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/species\/quercus-suber-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Quercus suber L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evergreen tree, monoecious, up to 20(25) m in height, ovoid-rounded in overall appearance. Trunk straight or somewhat tortuous in rocky terrain. Bark suberose, very thick (up to 25 cm), with deep longitudinal fissures, by which this tree is easily differentiated from <em>Q. rotundifolia<\/em>. This bark or cork is harnessed by humans, extracting it every 8-12 years, then leaving the tree with a distinctive appearance, with branches covered by thick bark and bare and reddish trunks, which then become blackish-brown to greyish as the tree grows the new bark. Branches tortuous, upright or extended. Branchlets whitish-tomentose. Leaves [2.5-7(10) \u00d7 1.2-4.5(6.5) cm], alternate, perennial, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, coriaceous, usually with few barely noticeable teeth, sometimes entire, dark green and bright on the upper side and whitish-tomentose on the underside, with tomentose petiole 6-20 mm. Male flowers in yellow and pendant catkin 4-8 cm, very numerous. Female flowers solitary or grouped in 2-5 on the axil of a linear bract. Fruit (the acorn) ovoid (20-45 \u00d7 10-18 mm), with chestnut-blackish nut and cupule with short lower scales, ovate-triangular, imbricate and \u00b1 applied, and upper scales longer, with recurved, not applied tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12633","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quercus suber L. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quercus suber L. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evergreen tree, monoecious, up to 20(25) m in height, ovoid-rounded in overall appearance. Trunk straight or somewhat tortuous in rocky terrain. 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