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Cork Oak Seeds (Quercus Suber)
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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 |
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"ulrich schubert" wrote in message ... 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 |
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On 25/10/04 10:18 pm, in article ,
"ulrich schubert" wrote: 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 These people don't sell the seeds but they do sell the trees. As you are living abroad, they *might* be prepared to sell some seeds or point you in the right direction. They a Thornhayes Nursery, St Andrews Wood, Dulford, Cullompton, Devon EX15 2DF Tel 01884 266746 email: www.thornhayes-nursery.co.uk Trees are £25 in a 7.5l pot and £12.50 for whips. Rather interestingly - and helpfully - they do a list of what they call "Tree Selection for the Terrified". This is to help those with "little knowledge or experience of selecting trees" and the list is divided into types of trees for differing situations. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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