bark

     

Bark, also known as perierm, is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants such as trees. It overlays the wood and consists of three layers, the cork, the phloem and the vascular cambium. Products used by people that are derived from bark include: spices and other flavorings, tannin, resin, latex, medicines, poisons, various hallucinatory chemicals and cork. Bark has been used to make cloths, canoes, ropes and used as a surface for paintings and map making; A number of plants are also grown for their attractive or interesting bark colorations and surface textures.

Trivia about bark

  • The basenji might not make the best guard dog since it can't do this, like other dogs
  • Sound a dog makes, or the part of a tree that doesn't appreciate a dog's company
  • This part of a tree consists of the outer cork & the inner phloem
  • "Dogs" do this "by custom" & one doing it "seldom bites"
  • After the hungry German shepherd gnawed on the tree, it let out...
  • On some trees & shrubs, this protective covering slowly peels off & is replaced
  • A pet sound, or a tree covering
  • Cinnamon & cork are obtained from this part of a tree
  • "Dogs that" do this "at a distance seldom bite"
  • Natives in Guyana make canoes out of this part of the locust tree
  • (Jeff Probst reads from a Fiji Islands beach.) A traditional Fijian art is making tapa, a cloth that's produced by pounding this tree part
  • The part of a tree from which quinine & aspirin's salicyclic acid are extracted
  • South Pacific islanders make tapa cloth from this part of the paper mulberry or breadfruit tree
  • A traditional Ugandan cloth is made from this part of the mutuba tree, softened by pounding
  • This in the clue is much worse than its bite
  • Decorticate a dogwood & you remove this from it
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a banana plantation in Ecuador.) The string inside a banana carries nutrients such as sugars between parts of the plant; it's called the phloem, from the Greek word for this tough stuff that covers trees
  • This follows "shag" in the name of a hickory tree because it breaks up into loosely attached plates as the tree ages