Meeting A Remarkable Tree

Recently a stroll through Auckland’s Cornwall Park led to a meeting with today’s tree, a Quercus canariensis, alternatively known as Mirbeck’s oak or an Algerian oak.

Apparently it hails from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and the Tunisia-Morocco-Algerian region of North Africa.

You can read a little more about the tree here, but the plaque beneath it states that it is “the finest oak tree in Cornwall Park.” (Or words to like effect.)

Although I have insufficient knowledge of the...