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Like grape vines, the trees ______in poor soil, putting down deep roots in search of ______and ______.Southern Portugal's Alentejo ______meets all of these ______, which explains why, by the early th century, this region had become the world's largest producer of cork, and why today it ______ roughly half of all cork production around the world.