"A single cork oak, which lives up to 200 years, can be harvested over 16 times." Extractors daub the next harvest date onto each tree after their job is complete.

Yes! Cork oak trees fully regrow their bark every decade or so. Harvesting cork is not a simple or easy process, however. Cork trees usually don’t produce the material until their 25th birthday.

In this video, we take you behind the scenes to explore the fascinating process of cork extraction from cork oak trees and how it’s transformed into a valuable product.The journey begins with ...

The cork oak prefers acidic soils, and can be found in open woodlands and on hills and lower slopes at altitudes of 1,000 to 3,200 feet, especially in Portugal and Spain.

The Davis campus is filled with an assortment of oak trees including 532 cork oaks. "You won't find another tree with a texture quite like this," Griswold said while pointing at a large cork oak.

Cork grows as a thick protective layer of outer bark, much thicker in the cork oak than in any other tree. Strange as it is to see a stripped cork oak with its lower 12 or 15 feet of dark inner ...

But natural cork is environmentally friendly, and the cork oak forests are worth preserving. The oak tree is an unusual tree. You can use it, “harvest” it, without cutting it down.

Cork is obtained from the bark of the cork oak, a slow-growing tree in the Mediterranean region that lives an average of 200 years. The valuable property of the cork oak is that it regenerates itself.

Construction History, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2020), pp. 1-22 (22 pages) This paper is an intimate portrait of cork used as a construction material, in a history that stretches back over millennia. Cork is ...