bark
plant tissue outside the vascular cambium or the xylem; in older trees may be divided into dead outer bark and living inner bark, which consists of secondary phloem. external parenchymal tissue, located just below the epidermis of the stem
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Summary
bark is a plant structure[1]. bark ranks in the top 8% of plant structure entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,280 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: material[3]
- Subclass of: Abschlussgewebe[4], plant material[5]
- Part of: tree[6]
- Has use: mulch[7], firelighting[8], bast shoe[9]
- Commons category: Bark (botany)[10]
- Said to be the same as: cortex[11]
- Opposite of: Zentralzylinder[12]
- Has part(s): rhytidome (?)[13], periderm[14], cork cambium[15], phelloderme[16], pericycle[17]
- Described at URL: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2013/fpl_2013_rowell002.pdf[18]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[19], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[22], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[23]
- Different from: Corteza[24], Bark[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[26]
- Model item: bark[27], liber[28]
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Influence
Things named for bark include attus[29].
Why It Matters
bark has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] bark is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]
Entities named for bark include attus[29].