2008-06-30 »
The two little Cork Oaks (Quercus suber, family Fagaceae) are growing up. Both acorns are from the same tree (here is where they came from) and were seeded on January 15th, 2008. We had some cold weather last week and that's probably why the «corkies» didn't get much higher. Other [...]
2008-04-23 »
Cork oaks (Quercus suber, Fagaceae family) seeded on January 15th, 2008. [Cascais - Portugal].
[Originally posted on Mar 6th, 2008]
Category: A STORY ABOUT CORK OAKS
2008-04-23 »
The Cork Oak - Sobreiro (Quercus suber, Fagaceae family) is a large native tree to Portugal. The acorns were seeded on January 15th, 2008 - the plants' age is referenced to that date.
[Cascais - Portugal].
[Originally posted on Mar 5th, 2008]
Category: A STORY ABOUT CORK OAKS
2008-03-29 »
The Cork Oak (Quercus suber, family Fagaceae) is a big tree, native to Portugal. And this is a story to continue... In the next posts, I'll insert a ruler, so that we can measure their growth. The acorns were seeded on January 15th - the plants' age is referenced to [...]
2008-03-27 »
Pictures taken during the floods of January 1996, nearby Coruche (Tagus Valley).
Our Minister of Environment thinks it's quite fine to built major complexes on the Tagus flood plane - read more, about Castanheira do Ribatejo...
Our Minister of Environment even thinks that the problem about yesterday's floods is the lack of [...]
2008-02-18 » - ASSOCIATED BUT NOT LIMITED.
Along the coastal centre and southern lands of Portugal, Maritime - or Cluster - pines (Pinus pinaster, Pinaceae family) and Cork oaks (Quercus suber, Fagaceae family) are frequently found together. This is how the ground looks like underneath them. Near Palmela, Portugal.
[originally posted [...]