Cork oak forests in Mediterranean, southeastern France represent an important ecosystem in terms of both ecological and economical values, but are declining due to conservation problems. While ...

Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can “breathe” through the cork ...

Like redwoods, the cork oak, Quercus suber, is a "pyrophyte," which means that it survives forest fires that burn off competing vegetation. The trunks and main limbs are insulated with a very thick ...

Mr. Pramuk, I am writing today to ask your advice about a 10-year-old oak tree in my front yard that is ailing. I have been told that it is a cork oak. I think it has sudden oak death. It has black ...

Flow cytometry analyses were used to verify the ploidy stability of Quercus suber L. somatic embryogenesis process. Leaf explants of two adult cork oak trees (QsG0 and QsG5) of the North of Portugal ...

I was searching around for articles on shedding cork oak trees and found one you had written back in 2006. I thought I might write to ask you about these trees. Bill Pramuk is a registered consulting ...

Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can “breathe” through the cork ...