{"id":676,"date":"2024-01-15T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enricoriolc13.sg-host.com\/?page_id=676"},"modified":"2025-02-13T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:16:43","slug":"sweet-oaks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/varietatslocals.org\/en\/alzines-agla-dolc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet garlic oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recovering sweet acorn holm oaks varieties from Mallorca<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The oak is one of the most emblematic trees of the Mediterranean. The vast majority of wild oak trees in Mallorca produce acorns with a high content of tannins that give them a bitter and astringent taste. But we also find oak trees with "sweet" acorns, which have been used both for animal consumption and also for human consumption (raw, roasted or flour).<\/p>

In Mallorca, these oak trees have traditionally been propagated through grafting, a specific technique that has been handed down from generation to generation, and which on our island is the only place where this culture is preserved.<\/p>

From 2019, thanks to the collaboration of Balanotrees<\/a> and through an Applied Research Grant funded by FOGAIBA, we were able to identify and characterize some of the sweet oaks of Mallorca.\u00a0Here<\/a>\u00a0you can consult the results of this latest project. You can also consult the different varieties or varietal types of oak that we were able to characterize and incorporate into the Catalog of local varieties of agricultural interest in the Balearic Islands.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Sweet acorn holm oaks nursery<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The preservation of the varieties of sweet acorn oaks is another milestone in the recovery of Mallorca's cultivated biodiversity and the cultural and gastronomic heritage of our island. For this reason, in 2022 we launched a project to propagate local varieties of sweet oaks using the micrografting technique.<\/p>

The forest nursery CEFOR Menut<\/a>, brings the oaks of a year, and Star of Levant <\/a>He gives us the space to graft and an area inside the greenhouse at his Bio Nursery.\u00a0<\/p>

Every year we complete the collections of Can Pistola (Felanitx), the UIB and the public estates of Galatz\u00f3 and Mortitx, respectively.<\/p>

In November we started the campaign of grafting bitter oak roots with sweet oak seedlings, thanks to volunteer grafters and those attending the training courses. The seedlings remain for 3 weeks in a hot tube shelf and if they have started favorably, they are transplanted first into trays and then into individual forest pots. Before the summer the saplings are brought to grow and acclimatize in the CEFOR-Menut facilities and at the end of the year they can be planted in the field.\u00a0<\/p>

All this is possible thanks to the selfless collaboration of volunteers who help us, both in the transfer and collection of seedlings, as well as in carrying out the grafting and subsequent maintenance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This project has the support of\u00a0<\/span>Mallorca Preservation Foundation<\/a>, the Estel de Llevant Foundation,<\/span>\u00a0the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment and\u00a0<\/span>the University of the Balearic Islands.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The preservation of the sweet garlic oak varieties is another milestone in the recovery of Mallorca's cultivated biodiversity and the cultural and gastronomic heritage of our island.<\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Do you want to graft oak trees?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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