what is the source of cork
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Cork is an impermeable buoyant material, the phellem layer of bark tissue that is harvested for commercial use primarily from Quercus suber (the cork oak), which is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Cork is composed of suberin, a hydrophobic substance.
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The commercial source of cork is the Cork tissue of Quercus suber. Cork cambium or phellogen cells divided pericllnally : cutting cells which are cut off towards the outside become suberised and dead and form cork.
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