Yes, you can eat tree bark as a safe and nutritious wild food–as long as you are using the right part of the bark from the right species of tree. And to clarify, we are not talking about the crusty, ...

Fortunately, that's when one of the most overlooked features, tree bark, comes out for its season ... when barks' varying hues and textures add life and much-needed visual appeal in a potentially ...

Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and ...

Bark textures are relatively uniform by tree species and make a great visual marker for broad tree identification. Textures are divided into at least 18 types, from smooth (beech) to spiny (locust).

Yet the color and texture of trees' bark makes a strong visual statement ... Beeches take a long time to grow, with 20-year-old trees reaching around 13 feet high. They last hundreds of years ...

The included bark acts as a barrier that gets trapped in between the two branches and does not allow a strong branch union to form. In the case of this very old tree, the included bark started ...

River birch (Betula nigra); Zones 4-9. These trees feature bark with bright colors and compelling textures: -- American beech (Fagus grandifolia); Zones 4-8. -- European beech ...