Ads
related to: tree that has peeling bark and leaves in water treatment
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Melaleuca quinquenervia, commonly known as the broad-leaved paperbark, paper bark tea tree, punk tree or niaouli, is a small- to medium-sized tree of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m (70 ft) tall, with its trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark.
It can grow 10–20 ft or more with a spread of 1 ⁄ 3 to 2 ⁄ 3 the height. It is a very slender tree with few branches as well as leaves.The petiolar-rachis is characteristically long and functions as a cladophyll. it has a white or yellow-colored peeling off bark.
A cultivated tree. Pachira aquatica can grow up to 23 meters (75 ft) tall with a diameter of 70 centimeters (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) at breast height. [3] It has shiny green palmate leaves with lanceolate leaflets up to twelve inches (30 centimeters) in length, and smooth green bark.
Vachellia flava is a tall shrub or small tree, seldom exceeding 4 metres (13 ft) in height. It is much branched, the trunk has dark brown, shaggy bark and the branches are green or brown with shiny, peeling bark. The compound leaves are small, with up to four pairs of pinnae, each with eight to twelve pairs of pinnules.
Melaleuca ericifolia, commonly known as swamp paperbark, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and the genus Melaleuca, native to south-eastern Australia.It is a rather variable species and some specimens resemble Melaleuca armillaris but its papery bark and smaller, more prolific flower heads distinguish it from that species.
The bark was often made into tea to be drunk for these medicinal purposes. [15] [22] Early Californian settlers may have used charcoal from the species to make gunpowder. [4] The wood is durable and has a warm color after finishing, so it has become more popular as a flooring material, especially in the Pacific Northwest. [23]
The silver birch is a medium-sized deciduous tree that owes its common name to the white peeling bark on the trunk. The twigs are slender and often pendulous and the leaves are roughly triangular with doubly serrate margins and turn yellow and brown in autumn before they fall.
A distinctive feature is the red birch's peeling bark, which is brown but cream when newly exposed. [2] The bark has been described as bright orange to orange-red, peeling off in very thin sheets. Each new layer of bark is covered with a white glaucous bloom, giving it a unique appearance. [3]