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  • Thumbnail for Bark (botany)
    Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues...
    29 KB (3,454 words) - 04:14, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quillaja saponaria
    Quillaja saponaria, the soap bark tree or soapbark, is an evergreen tree in the family Quillajaceae, native to warm temperate central Chile. In Chile...
    8 KB (853 words) - 04:19, 16 September 2024
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    Cinchona (redirect from Quinine Bark)
    than a legend. Quina bark was mentioned by Fray Antonio de La Calancha in 1638 as coming from a tree in Loja (Loxa). He noted that bark powder weighing about...
    41 KB (4,825 words) - 15:56, 23 November 2024
  • Look up bark up the wrong tree in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barking up the wrong tree is an idiomatic expression in English, which is used to suggest...
    4 KB (544 words) - 10:43, 18 April 2024
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    carry materials from one part of the tree to another. For most trees the trunk is surrounded by a layer of bark which serves as a protective barrier....
    124 KB (12,853 words) - 11:49, 17 November 2024
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    (Curculionidae). Although the term "bark beetle" refers to the fact that many species feed in the inner bark (phloem) layer of trees, the subfamily also has many...
    26 KB (2,904 words) - 00:59, 10 November 2024
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    Warburgia salutaris (pepper-bark tree, Afrikaans: Peperbasboom, Sotho: Molaka, Venda: Mulanga, Zulu: Isibaha) is a species of tree in the family Canellaceae...
    5 KB (509 words) - 16:34, 12 October 2024
  • Red Barked Tree is the twelfth studio album by the English post-punk band Wire--digitally released on 20 December 2010, and as a CD on 10 January 2011...
    24 KB (2,629 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2024
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    Willow (redirect from Willow bark)
    wound: "The bark of the willow has, indeed, been justly considered as a succedaneum for Peruvian bark, as has also that of the horse-chestnut tree, the leaf...
    52 KB (5,936 words) - 08:50, 18 October 2024
  • Look up bark in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bark may refer to: Bark (botany), an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick Bark (sound)...
    2 KB (254 words) - 06:59, 25 May 2024
  • Gum tree is the common name of several trees and plants: Eucalypteae, particularly: Eucalyptus, which includes the majority of species of gum trees Corymbia...
    698 bytes (119 words) - 09:01, 7 July 2024
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    Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like...
    13 KB (1,271 words) - 12:43, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Birch bark tar
    Birch bark tar (sometimes referred to as birch bark pitch) is a substance that is synthesized by dry distillation of birch tree bark. Birch bark tar is...
    13 KB (1,694 words) - 21:03, 26 April 2024
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    Jesuit's bark, also known as cinchona bark, Peruvian bark or China bark, is a former remedy for malaria, as the bark contains quinine used to treat the...
    9 KB (1,256 words) - 22:21, 9 July 2024
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    commonly applied after pruning, or at locations where the tree bark has been damaged. Tree guard paints are sold as organic and non-organic products....
    3 KB (399 words) - 22:45, 28 September 2024
  • A bark hack is a tool used to remove pine tree bark to promote the flow of pine resin, which is used in naval stores production. The tool consists of...
    1 KB (194 words) - 05:16, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Betula papyrifera
    native to northern North America. Paper birch is named after the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper-like layers from the trunk. Paper birch...
    24 KB (2,968 words) - 14:11, 17 April 2024
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    Birch (redirect from Birch Tree)
    can be made from the red inner bark of black birches. White-barked birches in particular are cultivated as ornamental trees, largely for their appearance...
    34 KB (3,730 words) - 23:07, 13 November 2024
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    alkaloid derived from the bark of the African tree Pausinystalia johimbe; also from the bark of the unrelated South American tree Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco...
    43 KB (4,477 words) - 14:14, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dryophytes gratiosus
    Dryophytes gratiosus, commonly known as the barking tree frog, is a species of tree frog endemic to the south-eastern United States. Formerly known as...
    14 KB (1,732 words) - 10:23, 4 October 2024
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