What plant is used to make bottle stoppers?!


Question: What plant is used to make bottle stoppers!?

What plant is used to make bottle stoppers!? What plant is used to supply grain to grind up for flour!? What wood is used for light weight model areoplanes!? What tree's sap is made into tyres!? And last question what Tree's bark conatins aspirin!? Thanks best answer gets 10 pointsWww@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Bottle stoppers are made from Cork!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Cork_oak
And FYI, the tree is not cut down to harvest this!. They strip the bark off a certain number of feet up the trunk!. This is a renewable resource!. Harvesting does not harm the tree!. A tree can be harvested every ten years!.

There is a variety of grain types!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Grain

The light weight wood used in many crafts is Balsa!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Balsa_wood

The 'sap made into tyres' would come mostly from the Para Rubber Tree!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Rubber

The Willow tree contains contain salicylic acid, the precursor to aspirin!.
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Bottle stoppers are made out of cork!.!.!. an actual tree, that is dying off because of people using it for memo boards and bottle stoppers!.

Wheat is usually used to make flour!. Rice is also used!.

Balsa wood is used for airplanes and other arts and crafts projects, because it's very soft and light-weight!.

Rubber trees are used for tires (tyres)!.

The white willow tree's bark contains aspirin!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Bottle stoppers or corks are made from the cork oak tree!.
The tree is native to poor rocky soil of southern Portuagal, Spain, Sardinia, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco!.

The rest of your questions are in the wrong category!. But if you have it know now!.
Flour!.!.!.from wheat, millet, spelt and corn
Model aeroplanes!.!.!.Balsa wood
Tyres!.!.!.from the rubber tree and petroleum
Aspirin!.!.!.Willow barkWww@FoodAQ@Com

Silly girl, it's CORK! Cork is the bark of trees that mostly grow in Spain!.
And we've used so much of the darn stuff that it's almost an endangered species!

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Cork_%28mat!.!.!.

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Bark from the cork oak is used to make bottle stoppers!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

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