CORK OAK 



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EU EH Predominant colouring of branches and 

 stem dark: slate coloured, dark grey, 

 olive, purple shades, broivn or nearly 

 black. 



Small trees not over 20 30 feet high. [For () 



see p. 201.] 



$ Evergreen, with more or less spinescent 

 grey-green foliage, and smooth slate 

 coloured branches. Bark on old stems 

 fissured and scaly, hard, slaty -black. 



Fig. 93. Quercus Suber, Cork Oak. Bark (Irv). 

 w. v. 13 



