elm bark
Hardwood outer layer
The outer covering of an elm tree.
Elm bark has distinctive deeply furrowed ridges and was historically used in herbal remedies.
The term appears most often in discussions of Dutch elm disease, a fungal infection spread by bark beetles that devastated elm populations across North America and Europe: The beetles burrow under the elm bark to lay their eggs.
- treeWoody perennial plant
- beetleHard-winged insect
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- roughUneven in surface
- textureSurface tactile quality
trunk · wood · fibrous · peeling · layer · canopy · shade · leaves · sawdust · old growth · forest · gnarly · fungus · borer · infestation · timber · grain · corky