Tree bark is akin to armor for the living sentinels gracing your landscape, vital for shielding the trees' food- and water-transporting parts (xylem and phloem) and regenerative issues from injury ...
In winter, when most flowering ceases and deciduous trees shed their leaves, the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, ...
when most flowering ceases and deciduous trees shed their leaves, the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, otherwise known as bark, may take the biggest bite out of our botanical observations.
The bark of larch trees was found to offer the most effective ... Inger Maaike/Flickr Although the larch is a conifer, it is deciduous and sheds its needles in the autumn He told BBC News ...