Sycamore Tree Natural Abstract
by Teresa Zieba
Title
Sycamore Tree Natural Abstract
Artist
Teresa Zieba
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
An American sycamore tree can often be easily distinguished from other trees by its mottled exfoliating bark which flakes off in great irregular masses, leaving the surface mottled, and greenish-white, gray and brown. The bark of all trees has to yield to a growing trunk by stretching, splitting, or infilling; the sycamore shows the process more openly than many other trees. The explanation is found in the rigid texture of the bark tissue which lacks the elasticity of the bark of some other trees, so it is incapable of stretching to accommodate the growth of the wood underneath, so the tree sloughs it off.
Bark as pictured here: Dark reddish brown, broken into oblong plate-like scales; higher on the tree, it is smooth and light gray; separates freely into thin plates which peel off and leave the surface pale yellow, or white, or greenish. Branchlets at first pale green, coated with thick pale tomentum, later dark green and smooth, finally become light gray or light reddish brown.
Photographed on the grounds of Montezuma Castle NP in Arizona, USA. The barks looked like painted with the finest artist brushes.
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December 2nd, 2016
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