We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Many of us have had, at one point or another, an emotional attachment to a particular tree. Remember the one in your front yard when you ...

are made in the bark of the tree, which create injury. The trees produce a gummy resin, like a scab, as a protection against the injury. The resin then hardens into teardrop pieces. More incisions ...

which enables the cambium — a green layer beneath the bark that generates new growth — of each piece to connect and become one. “We harvest the scion wood while the trees are dormant so that ...

The science can also reveal the origin of old pieces of wood ... year a new ring of growth is added to a tree's trunk and branches, just beneath the bark. The thickness of this ring depends ...

[Video help] Turning a small, rough strip of bark into a piece of fine cloth is a painstaking process. First, Taatoa cuts down a paper mulberry tree from a small patch next to the family's fale.

His piece de resistance is a full suit ... to steal their lunch while they were felling trees but his own food remained safe in his sturdy bark rucksack. Full bark suits may have been rare ...