IberiaNature A guide to the natural history of Spain
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Acorns in Spain

acorn : bellota; glande; glà (Cat.) The acorn of the holm oak is the staple of that most Spanish of animals: the cerdo ibérico , which gives us jamón ibérico. Holm oak and similar acorns are also known as glandes.

See: Acorns and rats in Castile. Islands of holm oak condemned?

 

 

 

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