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ˈpaper-bark
[f. paper n. + bark n.1]
1. A name used for several Australian trees distinguished by flaky layers of pale bark, esp. Melaleuca leucadendron, the cajeput, and other members of the genus Melaleuca, belonging to the family Myrtaceæ. Also attrib.
1842Western Australia 81 It [sc. the Melaleuca, or tea⁓tree] is sometimes known by the name of the paper-bark tree, from the multitudinous layers (some hundreds) of which the bark is composed. These layers are very thin, and are loosely attached to each other, peeling off like the bark of the English birch. 1846Stokes Discov. Austral. I. v. 106 The face of the country was covered with specimens of the red and white gum, and paper bark tree. 1866Treas. Bot. 197 Callistemon... The outer bark of some of the kinds..peel off in layers, hence the trees are called Paper Bark trees. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 216 Few of the forest trees are more picturesque than the paper-bark or tea-tree..of free and stately growth, the bark white. 1920B. Cronin Timber Wolves 88 From the paper-bark swamps came the reverberating boom of frogs. 1924Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 100 It was salty paper-bark country. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) 2 Wide, soggy moors..from which the great, white paper-barks tower. 1957P. White Voss 59 She walked in the garden, amongst the camellia bushes..and the scurfy native paperbarks. 1961A. Upfield Bony & White Savage ix. 78 A ring of paperbark trees, all grey⁓white of trunk and branch... He was able to tear off a strip, to find it composed of layer above layer of paper-thin wafers... Under the outer one the wafers were flesh⁓coloured. 1969Northern Territory News (Darwin) Focus '69 85/1, I took up my most pleasant sentry duties amongst the paperbark trees.
2. The durable bark of Melaleuca leucadendron.
1857J. Askew Voy. Austral. & N.Z. 433 The dead bodies are burnt or buried, though some in North Australia place the corpse in the paper bark of the tea-tree, and deposit it in a hollow tree. 1908E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. ii. 82 It became necessary..to keep the ridge covering of paper-bark in position. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang iv. 28 It was she who found him paperbark and fashioned his first sandals.
3. paper-bark maple, Acer griseum, a maple native to central China, introduced into Europe in 1901, and characterized by flaky, light brown bark; paper-bark tea-tree, ti-tree = sense 1 above.
1927A. Rehder Man. Cultivated Trees N. Amer. 577 Paperbark M[aple]. Tree to 8 m., with cinnamon-brown bark separating in thin papery flakes. 1938Amer. Nurseryman 15 Oct. 3/3 The leaves of the paperbark maple..are finely and thickly hairy underneath. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 223/1 The paper⁓bark maple (A[cer] griseum of western China is remarkable for its beautiful rich cinnamon brown bark which peels in broad paper-thin strips. 1974A. Mitchell Field Guide Trees Britain 349 Paper-bark Maple... Now much planted in gardens.
1967A. Rule Forests Austral. xiv. 154 An enterprising firm manufactures cork from the bark of the paperbark tea tree.
1944Living off Land vii. 137 Open⁓grained Timbers... Paper-bark Ti-tree [etc.]. |