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Have you ever wondered where cork comes from? It comes from the bark of the Cork Oak tree (tree species name - Quercus suber). The cork bark of this species of oak tree (yes it does produce acorns) can grow to become two to three inches thick. Normally however it is harvested when it is about one or one and a half inches thick.
Save. Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Thomas. Cork is a familiar material, but it is sometimes assumed wrongly to be the product of a great deal of factory processing. Instead, cork literally grows on trees and is a forestry product, and making corks for wine bottles involves only a few simple steps.ork Trees. The raw material for corks is the bark of the cork oak, an evergreen tree present in southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Cork bark contains a high proportion of suberin, a waxy substance that repels water.