The bark picture thread

[Brian Van Fleet]

Japanese Black Pine bark...
Mikawa:

“Arakawa’:

Unnamed seedling:

‘Kyokko Yatsabusa’:


‘Taihei’:

‘Hachi-gen’:

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

A couple exfoliating deciduous trees...
My little hip hawthorn, collected nearly 2 decades ago here in Bama:



Chinese Quince I’ve been fighting with for the last 15 years:

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Japanese Maple, ‘arakawa’, started from an air-layer:

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Some juniper bark:
Shimpaku which is red and is usually scrubbed smooth to highlight the contrast between it and the shari:

And tosho, with brown bark which is usually left intact to compliment the ruggedness of the deadwood:

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

And the big finish...ginkgo:

 

[parhamr]

Mountain Hemlock yamadori from Vancouver Island; roughly 80 years old (thicc trunk)


Mountain hemlock from the mid-Oregon Cascades, probably 20–30 years old


Mountain Hemlock from the south Washington Cascades, probably around 50 years old

 

[parhamr]

Dwarf Pygmy Cypress, at least 30 years old


Oregon White Oak, about 11 years old


California Incense Cedar,, about 7 years old


Zelkova Serrata, around 25 years old (root over rock)

 

[eb84327]

Western larch. St. Joe National Forest.

 

[Tycoss]

Bougainvillea:
And an olive:

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

The grapevine my parents planted when I was born.


Unknown tropical

 

[River's Edge]

Finally i have an entry in this thread. Shore Pine, Pinus Contorta . Collected Vancouver Island. No idea of the age but older than i am for sure! Collected 2012. Began training 2015.

 

[Housguy]

JBP

 

[River's Edge]

Ponderosa Pine

 

[Tycoss]

Lodgepole pine:

 

[Johnathan]

Is it possible to develop bark in a container? Or is it just something obtained with ground planting?

 

[SniffingKrylon]

The only 3 trees that have decent bark..
My juniper

My olive

And my ficus

 

[PiñonJ]

Is it possible to develop bark in a container? Or is it just something obtained with ground planting?

Bark can accumulate very quickly in a bonsai pot. BTW, you owe a bark photo. Here’s an Engelmann Spruce:

 

[Arcto]

Green leaf Manzanita showing the annual bark peeling as the trunk gains girth.

 

[Johnathan]

BTW, you owe a bark photo.

Lol! I posted one here:

Austrian Black Pine

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I thought that allowed me to speak freely lol but here is another one. I think it's a Virginia Pine

 

[Tycoss]

Is it possible to develop bark in a container? Or is it just something obtained with ground planting?

I actually find that the bark on my plants has developed faster in a container! Picea glauca wild form: