Quercus Suber
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• Height: 90 cm (excluding pot)

• Width: 90 cm

• Trunk:  43cm

• Pot: Height 20 cm / 40 × 40 cm

Photos taken in October 2025

Quercus Suber bonsai, the Mediterranean cork oak

This Quercus Suber bonsai is a commanding cork oak, a species whose deeply fissured, spongy bark makes it one of the most characterful trees a collector can own. At 90 cm tall and 90 cm wide, with a powerful 43 cm trunk, this is a substantial specimen with the kind of trunk girth and aged surface that take many years to develop. The thick, corky bark is the whole point of the cork oak, and here it wraps the trunk in deep ridges that read as pure age.

Quercus suber is an evergreen oak of the western Mediterranean, the very tree harvested for natural cork, and that protective bark gives the bonsai a rugged, sun-baked quality found in few other species. The small, leathery dark-green leaves sit in contrast to the rough trunk, and the broad canopy on a tree of this size carries real presence. This is a specimen meant to anchor a collection rather than sit quietly on a shelf.

Heritage of the cork oak

The cork oak is woven into the landscape and culture of southern Europe, from the dehesas of Iberia to the maquis of the islands, where ancient corticate trunks have stood for generations. As bonsai it is prized precisely for that bark, which thickens and furrows early and lends even a relatively young tree the gravitas of an old field oak. A well-grown Quercus suber is a portrait of the Mediterranean itself.

About this specimen

This cork oak stands around 90 cm tall excluding its pot, spans roughly 90 cm, and carries a massive 43 cm trunk, presented in the ceramic pot shown in the photographs, which is included. The bark is thick and corky along the whole trunk, and the canopy is full and well distributed. Photographed in October 2025, it is offered exactly as pictured.