The National Botanical
Garden in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a vast 98 hilly expanse of trees. The trees are
native and exotic from China, the Himalayas, Japan, North America, Turkey,
Siberia, and the Mediterranean. They include cotoneasters, pyrachantha
(firethorns), honeysuckle, European barberry (Berberis), hawthorn, Himalayan
cedar, mock orange (Philadelphus), cedars, spruce, pine, and cypress.
Hence there is a range
of tree bark – from notched and gnarled, to smooth and sleek; from bare to vine
covered, moss-covered, or fungi-covered; and from unmarked to pit-holed. For
example, one photograph shows the holes in the giant and ancient Pinus pithyusa Colchida. The Pinus pithyusa Colchida is a native pine of Georgia, and is often growing on slopes of mountains and in between rocks and stones.
There are also the tree bark
of the Ulmaceae Zelkova carpinifolia
and the Ebenaceae Diospyrus lotus
(ebony wood of the date plum). The Zelkova carpinifolia –
the Caucasian Zelkova – is native to the Caucasus, found mainly in the western
region of Georgia in Imereti. It’s a medium to large deciduous tree grown as an
ornamental tree for its short broad trunk and vase-shaped crown.
The date plum prefers
mountain forests to 1,500 metres across China, East Asia, Japan, and
Himalayas.The fruit of the tree can be eaten and is known to be a sedative.
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