are called strawberry trees. They have peeling, red bark evocative of Manzanita (an evergreen shrub or small tree with smooth orange or red bark).' They grow in USDA hardiness zones 8-10 and the ...

peeling off a sample of diseased bark. "Sometimes," she says, "I feel like a coroner." Aspen, one of the few broad-leaved trees to grow at high altitude in Western mountains, are emblems of the ...