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Cork oak

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  • Cork oak

  • Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina Nature Park

  • Algarve

  • Odemira

Identification and Access

  • No

  • Quercus suber L.

  • São Luís - Vale dos Gaios

  • Private property

  • 20 m

  • Isolated tree

  • More or less 300 years old

  • This oak is known locally as "Chaparro dos Pobres" (Cork oak of the poor); it is said that the poor, who went to beg at Monte, seeked shelter and ate under it's shade. It is a large tree, with leafy canopy, thick trunk from which emerge 6 large branches. The tree is not well, with rotting sections.