A magnificent small garden tree for year round interest its most prominent feature is its tactile, silky, polished bark. The smooth, mahogany bark peels in translucent cinnamon and honey coloured sheets to reveal a fresh new hue of bronze-red gloss beneath. Caught in autumn sunlight this tree almost glows. This multi-stemmed one is a highly prized specimen.
Common Name: Tibetan cherry tree, birch bark cherry, birchbark cherry, paperbark cherry
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New Theme or am I just a Johnny come lately?
I thought I was going doolally or blind as I couldn’t see the name of the tree in the header … then I saw it in the tags.
Nice. Never seen this before.
New year, new theme 😉
And why not, indeed!
Such an amazing colour combination. I don’t think I have seen this one before
I love the colours and patterns in this photo. Although it looks nothing like it, it reminds me of childhood summers and young stalks of rhubarb, which we used to pull and eat with a little dish of dipping sugar. 🙂
Oh, yes! My mother used to put some sugar in a little white paper bag for me 🙂
Actually, now I think of it, we used to have little paper bags too sometimes, or paper rolled into a cone shape. 🙂
Sounds about right! Of course I was very lucky because from the age of 10 I lived in the “rhubarb triangle” with a rhubarb field at the bottom of the garden 😉
🙂 We had our own little rhubarb triangle… Our house was on a corner plot and our small back garden was triangular, with the rhubarb patch in the pointed end furthest from the house. 😉
Haha…