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	Holm Oak - Flora ProvenceBeyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Holm Oak grows mainly in the lower parts of the region, but spreading upwards to mingle with the Pubescent oaks.
		This evergreen oak has long, pointed (or sometimes oval) leaves, each a single lobe, and not the widely-known oak-leaf shape.
		Holm oak can grow to 30 m, and some are seen that big, usually standing alone in a field.
	www.beyond.fr /flora/oakholm.html (140 words)

	OAK
		Oak is any of a large variety of trees or shrubs that bear acorns.
		The acorns of white oaks form in the spring, mature during the summer, and are shed in the autumn.
		The overcup oak, the swamp chestnut oak, and the swamp white oak are common in swampy areas.
	www.britanicindia.com /oak.html (1246 words)

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		The holm oak is an essential, almost defining, element of the Spanish Mediterranean landscape.
		Moro in his excellent "Guía de los árboles de España" (1995) proposed the holm oak as the national tree of Spain, in the way that the maple is to Canada.
		Biologists came to the rescue and discovered that the tree is perhaps the oldest and biggest holm oak in the country: it's 16.5m tall, with a girth of 7.8m and is 800 years old.
	www.iberianature.com /material/holmoak.html (1023 words)

	What Fernando Oliveira did not say about cork-oak DRAFT
		The cork oak for the skeleton, and the pine for the planking.
		The azinho [holm oak] is sometimes put in place of the sovaro, which yields nothing to the sovaro..., except that it is smaller, and is more protected because of the fruit that it gives, and what is more it is not found so close to the sea-ports.
		This study of cork oaks and their use in shipbuilding has inevitably suffered from the fact that it is now well over a century since their use ceased in significant shipbuilding, and a quarter of a millenium since the last trees to be used were actively nurtured.
	home.clara.net /rabarker/Aveiro-txt.htm (5224 words)

	Oak
		Oak bark is grey-brown in colour and distinctly gnarled and furrowed.
		For dyeing purposes an infusion of the oak bark mixed with a small quantity of copperas yields a dye of a purplish colour, and was used by Scottish Highlanders to dye woollens and yarn.
		Due to the oaks many associations and characteristics, it is used symbolically on many ritual occasions, for instance in February during the festival of Imbolc, the spirits of the oak tree can be invoked to aid and lend strength to the goddess as she sleeps having given birth to the new god.
	www.controverscial.com /Oak.htm (6126 words)

	Oaks - mediterranean climate gardening throughout the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Oaks feature prominently in the northern hemisphere mediterranean climates and are a vey important aspect of those environments in which they are found.
		Oaks produce flowers and fruit (acorns) which are mainstays for many kinds of wildlife.
		In the Mediterranean, the evergreen Quercus ilex (Holm Oak) is often used to define the extent of the mediterranean climate and mediterranean-type vegitation, its range almost completely encircling the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.mediterraneangardensociety.org /plants/Oaks.html (728 words)

	Oak
		Oak is the wood for lumber [timber]: Oaks are cultivated for ornament and are prized as the major source of hardwood lumber.
		Oak trees are said to grow for 200 years, be in their maturity for 200 years and to take 200 years to die.
		An Oak for the man, to represent strength, and one of Apple for the woman, to represent fertility.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /theshire/trees/html/oak.html (684 words)

	Oak, Common
		The Newland Oak in Gloucestershire measures 46 feet 4 inches at 1 foot from the ground, and is one of the largest and oldest in the kingdom, these measurements being exceeded, however, by those of the Courthorpe Oak in Yorkshire, which Hooker reports as attaining the extraordinary girth of 70 feet.
		Oak sawdust used also to be the principal indigenous vegetable used in dyeing fustian, and may also be used for tanning, but is much inferior to the bark for that purpose.
		Oak apples have also been occasionally used in dyeing as a substitute for the imported Oriental galls, but the fl obtained from them is not durable.
	www.nisbett.com /herbs/o/oakcom01.html (2744 words)

	Oak (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		The oak woods of Bashan are frequently alluded to (Isa.
		Three species of oaks are found in Palestine, of which the "prickly evergreen oak" (Quercus coccifera) is the most abundant.
		Tristram says that this oak near Hebron "has for several centuries taken the place of the once renowned terebinth which marked the site of Mamre on the other side of the city.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/oak.html (302 words)

	Oak - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Oak, common name for a large genus of hardwood trees that are widespread in the North Temperate Zone.
		Beech, common name for a family of flowering trees or, occasionally, shrubs that often dominate temperate forests, but more specifically for its...
		Situated on Black Oak Ridge (hence its name), near Knoxville; it is one of the country's leading centres...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Oak.html (140 words)

	Holm Hanya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Holm Hanya - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Holm, Hanya, professional name of Johanna Eckert (1893-1992), German-American choreographer and teacher, known for her integration of dance and...
		Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied medicine and was later assistant to the German-American...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Holm_Hanya.html (90 words)

	Istria on the Internet - Flora - Quercus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Quercus ilex - Holm oak / Evergreen oak (Eng.) - Elice / Leccio (Ita.) - Česvina / Crnika (Hrv.)
		The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus (Tanbark oaks).
		The "live oaks" (oaks with evergreen leaves) are not a distinct group, instead with their members scattered among the sections below.
	www.istrianet.org /istria/flora/quercus-oak.htm (2615 words)

	Evergreen Holm Oak Quercus Ilex Stecheiche Yeuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The evergreen oak is a characteristic tree of the macchi, or evergreen scrub of the Mediterranean countries, but it is quite hardy in the south and west of Britain.
		The target is to settle the holm oak again which has originally been the predominant tree of this area.
		The holm oaks have to be inoculated with a mycorrhizal fungus since they are obligatorily mycotrophic plants which means that they are dependent on the mycorrhizal-sybiosis.
	www.goring-by-sea.uk.com /ilexgroup/ilextree.htm (604 words)

	Holm Tree
		It is a native of Southern Asia, from Cochin-China west-wards, North Africa, and the south of Europe, occurring wild as far north as Nantes, and growing at an altitude of 3,200 feet on the slopes of Etna.
		The acorns are generally bitter, and this is said to be particularly the case with specimens of this Oak grown in cold, damp situations.
		The Holm is also said, owing to its compactly rounded outline and tough and solid wood, to be less liable to injury by wind or lightning than any other species of Oak.
	www.2020site.org /trees/holm.html (1378 words)

	Keele University Arboretum : Oaks at Keele
		In Sessile Oak, the leaf tapers into the stalk while in Pedunculate Oak there are two ear-like lobes or auricles at the base which are shown to better effect in the photograph on the right.
		Sessile Oak leaves tend to be symmetrical on either side (a leaf folded down the midrib matches on the sides) whereas the pedunculate oak tends to be much less symmetrical.
		Before we move on it is worth just comparing the leaves of the three common oaks at Keele again; the rather long and narrow leaves of the Turkey Oak, the short stalk with lobed base of the Pedunculate Oak and the tapered base with long stalk of the Sessile Oak.
	www.keele.ac.uk /university/arboretum/articles/oaks.htm (1464 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Holm Oak is an evergreen species of Oak, there are several others in the park.
		There is a tree known as Cork Oak (Quercus suber) but this tree is undoubtably the Holm Oak (Quercus ilex).
		Dorina would have been familiar with the Cork Oak as it is a mediterranean species but it is not hardy and does not thrive in the British climate.
	www.friendsofdagnampark.org.uk /Holm%20Oak%20Page.htm (207 words)

	The Botanical Garden of Barcelona
		Calcareous evergreen forests dominated by holm oak (Quercus ilex), and differentiated from mountain holm oak woods by the presence of such tall shrub species as the strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo), Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus), the heath tree (Erica arborea) and such low shrubs as butcher’s broom (Ruscus aculeatus).
		The composition of this undergrowth is similar to that of the coastal holm oak forest.
		The predominant species in coastal areas are Astragalus balearicus and Launaea cervicornis, whilst holm oak predominates in the scrub and low woody species from the Lamiaceae and Leguminosae families, as well as many geophytes.
	www.jardibotanic.bcn.es /22_4_eng.htm (875 words)

	Royal Horticultural Society - Advice: Holm Oak Leaf-mining Moth
		On evergreen oaks, the damage remains visible until the old leaves drop in early summer.
		By late winter, much of the foliage on a holm oak may be affected.
		Fortunately, holm oaks tolerate the damage and continue to grow, even when heavily infested.
	www.rhs.org.uk /advice/profiles0106/holm_oak_moth.asp (177 words)

	Live oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Live oak or evergreen oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage.
		The name live oak comes from the fact that evergreen oaks are still green and "live" in winter, when other oaks are dormant, leafless and "dead"-looking.
		The name is used mainly in North America, where evergreen oaks are widespread in warmer areas, along the Atlantic coast from Virginia to Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to Texas and across the southwest to California and southwest Oregon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Live_oak (616 words)

	ICPP98 Paper Number 2.8.19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fungal infection induced an early significant decrease in PLWP of inoculated plants of chestnut and holm oak.
		In cork oak, the decrease induced by infection was significant on PLWP only after 10 wai, but significant on gs as soon as 5 wai.
		However, in holm oak, there was a synergistic effect of floodings and fungal infection on PLWP.
	www.bspp.org.uk /icpp98/2.8/19.html (436 words)

	holm oak - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		- ornamental oak: a broad-leaved evergreen tree grown widely for ornament.
		Holm, Eleanor (1913-2004), American swimmer, who won a gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke event at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
		1600 Oak Hills Rd SW Bemidji, MN, 56601
	encarta.msn.com /holm_oak.html (140 words)

	Holm Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Holm Oak (Quercus ilex), also called Holly Oak or Evergreen Oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region.
		The name ilex is originally the classical Latin name for the Holm Oak, but was later also used as a botanical genus name for the hollies.
		While Holm Oak can be grown in much of maritime northwestern Europe, it is not tolerant of cold continental winters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holm_oak (405 words)

	Holm Oak Vineyard - media reviews
		Jan 14, 2002 (2000 Holm Oak Cabernet) "Full red-purple; the aromas range through cassis, mint, earth and oak, leading into a full-bodied palate with dark currant fruit, and both the tannins and oak already nicely balanced and integrated.
		Dark red purple, the aromas are of ripe, dark plum without straying into overripe prune characters, the voluptuous, velvety palate likewise.
		"Holm Oak Pinot Noir 1997 Produced from estate grown grapes grown on the banks of the Tamar River.
	www.holm-oak.com /reviews.htm (415 words)

	Thread Page
		Prinos or Holm Oak is a familiar tree in the mountain areas of Crete and is used for grazing goats - they climb the trees to eat the leaves and shoots, producing really weird shapes, almost like the Baobab tree of southern Africa.
		The holm oak, celebrated by Virgil for its dark shade, has escaped from gardens on the Isle of Wight, where it was introduced, and is marching northwards through England's chalk grassland and pastures, helped by warmer winters.
		Then a member of staff watched a television documentary about a native holm oak forest in Extremadura, Spain, which was being devastated by feral goats.
	www.the-tree.org.uk /MessageBoard/thread.php?id=283 (560 words)

	Holm Oak Vineyard - Current Releases (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		If you are interested in buying or trying any of these wines, you can order directly from us, or visit one of the fine wine merchants who stock them.
		The powerful fruit, oak and tannin combination is balanced with a soft acid finish.
		The palate is full of plum and dark berry flavours and a big middle palate that is enhanced with lovely oak balance and ripe tannins.
	www.holm-oak.com.cob-web.org:8888 /current.htm (334 words)

	Poster 51: Silviculture of Holm Oak (Quercus rotundifolia L.) Scrub in Penascosa, Albacete, Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The studies presented in this poster were carried out in holm oak scrub.
		The holm oak, in our area of study, forms a scrub as a consequence of traditional exploitation for firewood and cattle grazing.
		The scrub consists of scattered (3040% areas covered) and compact holm oak shrubs with an underneath layer of camephytes, thyme (Thymus spp.), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), and several other herbaceous species.
	www.metla.fi /iufro/iufro95abs/d1pos50.htm (236 words)

	Holm Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a member of the white oak section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer.
		The flowers are catkins, produced in the spring; the fruit is an acorn, which matures in about 6 months.
		The acorns, like those of the Cork Oak, are an important food for free-range pigs reared for serrano ham production.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holm_Oak (405 words)

	Devine Homes Plc - Developers in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire - Holm Oak
		It's in the village of Storrington where Devine Homes has its new site 'Holm Oak', in Plantation Way, a development of just 14 select and interestingly designed properties that reflect the high standards for which the Company is so well regarded.
		The exacting specification provided in all the properties Includes; modern fully fitted kitchens, luxury bathrooms with white sanitaryware and chrome fittings, quality ceramic finishes in the bathrooms and en-suites, built in wardrobes, feature fireplaces and partly landscaped gardens with paving, paths and terraced areas.
		Holm Oak gives purchasers an opportunity to experience new homes that offer the very best in modern design, technology and energy efficiency, set in mature gardens and further enhanced by the surrounding woodland and lush green countryside.
	www.devinehomes.co.uk /page/holm_oak (429 words)

	Quercus ilex - Holm Oak (Evergreen Oak) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This evergreen oak was introduced to Britain some 400 years ago; it originates in the Mediterranean region.
		Some of the leaves are spiny - hence its specific name, derived from the Latin name of the holly.
		Often found near the coast in Wales, the holm oak is rather sensitive to frost.
	www.first-nature.com /trees/quercus_ilex.htm (66 words)

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