When the outer bark peels away, it reveals white, green, and purple inner bark — resembling camouflage. This feature is mostly visible during the winter. Lace Bark pine is one of the favorite ...

Twig characteristics. The twigs on a tree are last year's growth. It is woody, but not yet covered in bark. Oftentimes, twigs have a distinguishing color or arrangement of buds.

Green bark is found on trees and shrubs of many different, unrelated species. In Australia, young bottle trees of Queensland forest and scrubland have green bark that turns dark with age.

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The Arbutus Marina and its smaller cousin, Arbutus Unedo, are called strawberry trees. They have peeling, red bark evocative of Manzanita (an evergreen shrub or small tree with smooth orange or ...

Two trees with green trunks deserve mention. One is palo verde (Parkinsonian spp.), which means “green stick” in Spanish and references its green photosynthesizing bark.

Leaves are the most useful and frequently used characteristics for identifying the species of a tree, but as trees lose their leaves in the autumn, other features become important. The bark ...

A tall, skinny evergreen tree with spicy aromatic foliage which is blue-green in younger plants, then matures to a deeper shade. The bark has a tactile, flaky texture for added visual interest.

The bark of Eucalyptus deglupta trees peels off throughout the year, creating a rainbow-like effect as it reveals the fresh, bright green bark below. Rainbow eucalyptus tree in O'ahu, Hawaii.

Trees are nearly always selected for their flowers, foliage, or form. Yet, at this time of year, there is an often overlooked arboreal feature that may achieve sudden prominence in the garden. In ...