The bark picture thread

[0soyoung]

Bark, especially bark that has broken plates that make it look rugged, is a function of the amount of growth. High growth grows the internal diameter which breaks the outer, stiffer, less flexible bark. It works just like when we pork up and our bellies get too big to restrain with mere buttons on our shirts. "Bonsai mixes" are not very rich or intended to grow at high rates, they are intended to control or minimize growth to keep the tree approximately the same. Use a richer mix, allow more room for roots to grow, prune roots for growth rather than fitting into a smaller pot, allow a larger canopy with more leaves, maximize sun and concurrent watering, and fertilize more to get more growth.

You neglect the fact that in addition to the vascular cambium that we refer to as 'the cambium', there is a cork cambium outside the phloem and it, the cork cambium, produces the bulk of the bark (cork cells).

 

[Norcalkbonsai]

Big ole JPB I picked up today. Some pretty incredible bark

 

[Heitor Silva]

Calliandra spinosa.

 

[Wilson]

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Lance is this a metasequoia? I don't remember ever seeing a photo of this bad boy before.
A photo from this past summer, Rheingold throwing roots from the trunk. Thuya have a great ability to push roots wherever they grab some moisture

 

[LanceMac10]

a metasequoia

...yes....

Brazilian Raintree with some flaking...

 

[Housguy]

A trunk of a very old California Juniper, pretty amazing!

 

[0soyoung]

A trunk of a very old California Juniper, pretty amazing!
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Nice! But that's not bark (barring what may be a thin little life line near the right side).

 

[MHBonsai]

RMJ

 

[Boscology]

Heres my bark photo. I bought this burl this year from a family friend. Its white Cedar collected from northern Minnesota. The whole thing is gigantic, too big for us to easily measure but the bark scales are like the sizes of various sport balls with a height of the scale being 8" or so in many places. and hard as stone.

I took these pics dropping it off at an artist friend's workshop who works on live edge stuff but we have since had to move it to a larger mill and I hope to get our cuts back shortly so we can see what we get back, there is only about 10-20% of the bark missing from the burl (likely indicating a small amount of rot) so we expect a lot of good material.

 

[Forsoothe!]

That's big enough to hide aliens. Be careful...

 

[Dav4]

20 year old Japanese White Pine



75 year old Japanese White Pine

 

[Dav4]

Hawthorn collected in Alabama


Hawthorn collected in Louisiana

 

[hltkrgz]

Austrian black pine collected this summer, cant wait to work on it in the upcoming years

 

[Housguy]

5 year old cork oak bark

 

[River's Edge]

Shore Pine Bark Indeterminate age. Pinus Contorta

 

[greenleaves]

Boxwood dug from an old hedge

 

[jaco94]

The passage of time on this Elm

 

[Wilson]

Azalea, yellow birch, honeysuckle, and physocarpus.

 

[Dav4]

Old silverberry

 

[Colorado]

How’s this for flaky pine bark? Ponderosa.