Cork Oaks

The Glenloch Cork Oak plantation consists of about 10 ha of Quercus suber <http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_oak> planted in 1923 near the Glenloch Interchange, just west of Black Mountain. The plantation was established as part of Walter Burley Griffin’s vision for a self-sustaining city. Oak seedlings were raised from seed collected from a specimen probably planted by George and Marianne Campbell at Duntroon in the early 1860s, as well as from seeds from Spain.

Quercus suber is native to south western Europe and northern Africa.

The cork has proved to be of high quality and of commercial value and there have been a number of harvests.