Girls with cheeks smeared with thanaka (sun block made from ground tree bark) balance two to a bicycle.
Two years later they're found living off tree bark, wearing animal skins and making nutritional smoothies out of locally gathered herbs and their own urine.
An abandoned horse that looked like a "walking skeleton" and was forced to eat tree bark to survive has been rescued from a field in Hertfordshire.
He showed how paints containing powdered metal can be splashed with acid to create metal oxides that give the effect of natural rusting, and how to make fake tree bark from a mold ingeniously colored using carpet scrapings.
The main culprit in the cinnamon powder is actually derived from tree bark and contains cellulose, an undigestible fiber capable of producing a strong inflammatory response in lung tissue, leading to long term wheezing and a chronic cough, potentially placing patients at further risk for bouts of pneumonitis or even aspiration pneumonia.
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We hugged three-story-high dirt walls with vines clinging to them, passed dense bamboo forests, fragrant hibiscus bushes and groves of towering rainbow eucalyptus, a rare tree with multicolored bark.
Afterward, the newlyweds carve their marriage vows into the bark of a tree.
D-shaped holes in the bark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.
Aspirin, for example, was originally derived from willow bark, and the anticancer drug Taxol comes from the bark of the Pacific yew tree.
One used mushrooms on mossy bark harvested from a fallen tree.
In fact, they tend to be pretty sick, as the normal thinning from fires is suppressed, resulting in an unhealthy tree density, invasion and death from bark beetles, and then surprise a mega fire that takes down the entire woods.
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The drug is Taxol, Bristol's brand name for paclitaxel, a trace compound found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree in the northwestern U.S. During the 1970s researchers for the U.S. government's National Cancer Institute discovered that paclitaxel stops the growth of some cancerous tumors.
One-third of drugs on the market originate in nature, such as cancer drug Taxol, derived from the bark and needles of the yew tree.
FDA have botanical origins, such as aspirin from willow bark and tamoxifen from the Pacific yew tree.
And there was a lack of oversight from the regulator, the Financial Services Authority: it was "thoroughly inadequate... not so much the dog that did not bark, as a dog barking up the wrong tree".
And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.
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Handmade from the tough bark of the Tara Wing-Celtis or Blue Sandalwood tree and rice straw, Xuan paper is known for its strong, smooth surface, its ability to absorb water and moisten ink, and fold repeatedly without breaking.
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