valonia

Etymology
From the name  of the now Albanian city  around which it grows unlike in Italy; but an occasional acquaintance at first and one of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world only in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and becoming popular in the German Reich only by the 1880s.

Noun

 * 1) Any of species, now subspecies  or  of European evergreen oak trees
 * 2) A dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning.