"ulrich schubert" wrote in message
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Hi all

i am trying to lay my hands on some viable cork oak seeds --is there anyone
on this forum who have a cork oak nearby and would be prepared to send me
some acorns -- i am willing to cover any costs involved

thanks

ulrich

Found this for you Ulrich:
http://www.growtube.com/nursery.html


And totally irrelevantly -
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/p...identalis&CAN=
LATIND has the following :~)

Edible Uses
Coffee; Seed.
Seed - cooked[105]. A famine food[177]. It can be dried, ground into a powder
and used as a thickening in stews etc or mixed with cereals for making bread.
The seed contains bitter tannins, these can be leached out by thoroughly washing
the seed in running water though many minerals will also be lost. Either the
whole seed can be used or the seed can be dried and ground it into a powder. It
can take several days or even weeks to properly leach whole seeds, one method
was to wrap them in a cloth bag and place them in a stream. Leaching the powder
is quicker. A simple taste test can tell when the tannin has been leached. The
traditional method of preparing the seed was to bury it in boggy ground
overwinter. The germinating seed was dug up in the spring when it would have
lost most of its astringency.

The roasted seed is a coffee substitute.


Jenny