Oak


Oak

Beech family tree.

In Europe, the northern growing oak and holm oak.

Powerful and strong tree biggest European trees, crown spreading, slender trunk.

Oak height reaches up to 40m.

He can be of the age to 1000 years.

Leaves smooth symmetrical with a characteristic serrated shape.

Male flowers gathered in females, the female twin.

Fruit oak - commonly called acorn nuts can provide food for porcine. Delicacy of wild boars.

In the years of famine in Sweden and Norway ground acorns into flour added.

Roasted acorns acorn give coffee.

There are two main species of the stem and sessile (presence stems with acorn)

Wood colored sand having a lot of knots, is heavy and hard unsuitable for making long beams.

Useful for underwater works lying in the water turns black.

Bark used in tanning and medicine. As a decoction apply diarrhea. Externally bark ointment is applied burns and frostbite.

In the culture of the oak is often attributed magical properties. Often writes about him in the legends and tales.

For example, the story of some cities. Torun starts information on oak.

Oak symbol was often used in the coats of nobility coats of cities and decorations.

 

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