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Portuguese oak

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  • Portuguese oak

  • Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

  • Algarve

  • Odemira

Identification and Access

  • No

  • Quercus faginea Lambert

  • Relíquias - Monte da Estrada

  • Private property

  • 20 m

  • Isolated tree

  • More or less 300 years old

  • It is a large size Portuguese Oak, with leafy canopy. It has a thick trunk from which emerge 6 long branches. The tree is located in the middle of a cultivated field, with grass forage. There are cattle that comes to rest in the shade of the oak. The terrain is clay, shale, uncompressed. The site is fenced off and is not accessible to visitors. This species is considered rare in the region.