The cork oak is a tree that can reach up to 25 meters in height. It is an evergreen species that keeps green leaves throughout the year. It usually blooms between April and June. The fruits are acorns, as in all oak species, which ripen and fall between September and February.
Azinheira
The holm oak is a generally wide and rounded canopy tree that can reach 25 meters in height, although it rarely exceeds 15-20 m. It is an evergreen species that keeps green leaves throughout the year. It blooms in spring and its fruits are acorns, as in all oak species, which ripen and fall in autumn.
Pinheiro Manso
The stone pine is a tree that can reach 30 meters in height. It is a perennial species with a rounded crown that keeps green leaves throughout the year. It blooms in spring and the seeds are pine nuts, much larger than those of maritime pine, which grow inside pine cones that ripen in the fall of the second year, and which are released the following spring.
Pinheiro Bravo
The maritime pine is a tree that can reach up to 40 meters in height, although it rarely exceeds 25 m. It is a perennial species of pyramid crown that keeps green leaves throughout the year. It blooms in spring and the seeds are small winged pine nuts that grow inside pine cones that ripen at the end of summer or autumn of the second year, but which will only be released in the spring or summer of the third year. In the Iberian Peninsula it is the fastest growing pine and can live up to 300 years.
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