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Featured Galleries: Textures of Trees: Bark

What do you first notice about a tree? Its delicate leaves? Its colorful flowers? Or its sturdy bark? A tree's bark provides protection and a pipeline for food and water, but it also is a source of beauty. Click through this gallery to discover a wide range of bark textures, from the furrowed oak to the smooth beech. Then take a look at the trees around you and you may discover something new!

Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark
Taxus x hunnewelliana Rehd. (Hunnewell yew), bark
Phellodendron amurense Rupr. (Amur corktree), bark
Cercis canadensis ‘Covey’ (LAVENDER TWIST® redbud), bark
Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich. (bald-cypress), bark
Euonymus bungeanus Maxim. (Manchurian spindle tree), bark
Albizia julibrissin (Silk-tree), bark, trunk
Cornus sericea subsp. sericea (Red-osier Dogwood), bark, stem
Betula turkestanica (Turkestan Birch), bark, mature
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bark, mature
Betula papyrifera (Paper Birch), bark, mature
Ulmus parvifolia (Lacebark Elm), bark, mature
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Syringa pekinensis 'Morton' (CHINA SNOW) (CHINA SNOW® Peking Lilac), bark, trunk
Carya ovata (Shagbark Hickory), bark, trunk
Fagus sylvatica 'Zlatia' (Golden-leaved European Beech), bark, trunk
Pinus resinosa (Red Pine), bark, mature
Pinus densiflora 'Umbraculifera' (Tanyosho Pine), bark, mature
Pinus armandii (Chinese White Pine), bark, trunk
Pinus aristata (Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine), bark, mature
Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature
Taxus baccata (English Yew), bark, mature
Taxodium distichum 'Mickelson' (PP 3551 SHAWNEE BRAVE™ Bald-cypress), bark, branch
Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn-redwood), bark, trunk
Juniperus communis 'Suecica' (Swedish Juniper), bark, trunk
Ginkgo biloba 'PNI 2720' PP2726 (PRINCETON SENTRY® Ginkgo), bark, branch
Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese-cedar), bark, trunk
Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic White-cedar), bark, trunk
Cedrus libani subsp. stenocoma (Cedar-of-Lebanon), bark, trunk
Abies lasiocarpa var. arizonica (Corkbark Fir), bark, mature
Abies concolor (White Fir), bark, branch
Malus pumila (Common Apple), bark, mature
Malus 'Thunderchild' (Thunderchild Crabapple), bark, branch
Fraxinus pennsylvanica green ash (Green Ash), bark, trunk
Aesculus glabra (Ohio Buckeye), bark, trunk
Aesculus flava (Yellow Buckeye), bark, branch
Quercus oglethorpensis (Oglethorpe's oak), bark, summer
Quercus palustris (Pin Oak), bark, mature
Tilia 'Zamoyskiana' (Zamoyski's Linden), bark, mature
Magnolia officinalis var. biloba (Chinese Two-lobed Magnolia), bark, trunk
Acer triflorum (Three-flowered Maple), bark, mature
Acer xfreemanii 'DTR 102' (AUTUMN FANTASY® Freeman's Maple), bark, branch
Quercus alba (white oak), bark detail
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple), bark
Acer saccharinum (silver maple), bark
Platanus racemosa (California sycamore), bark

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