Cork

A thick, light type of wood coming from the bark of mature cork oaks (Quercus suber). These are grown commercially in Western Spain, Portugal and some areas of North Africa. Trees live for as long as 500 years. It"s a broad-leafed evergreen and its outer bark can be removed every nine years beginning when the tree is fifteen to twenty years old. See 'Cork; As a bottle stopper'.

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