The inner bark of the alder, as well as red osier dogwood, or chokecherry, was also used by Native Americans in their smoking mixtures, known as kinnikinnick, to improve the taste of the bearberry leaf.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.

The walls of cork cells in the bark of trees are impregnated with suberin, and suberin also forms the permeability barrier in primary roots known as the Casparian strip.

The stream was also the transportation route for their birch bark canoes, which could travel from Lake Winnipesaukee to the Atlantic Ocean.

Instead of true cinnamon, " Chinese cinnamon " ( also known as rougui, the ground bark of the cassia tree, a close relative of true cinnamon which is often sold as cinnamon ), may be used.

They also became more dog-like as well: they lost their distinctive musky " fox smell ", became more friendly with humans, put their ears down ( like dogs ), wagged their tails when happy and began to vocalize and bark like domesticated dogs.

Most soil less media for container plants also contain organic materials such as peat or composted bark, which provide some nitrogen to the plant.

Most Protea species can be placed in one of two broad groups according to their response to fire: reseeders are killed by fire, but fire also triggers the release of their canopy seed bank, thus promoting recruitment of the next generation ; resprouters survive fire, resprouting from a lignotuber or, more rarely, epicormic buds protected by thick bark.

Fruit is the most important component of an orangutan's diet, however, the apes will also eat vegetation, bark, honey, insects and even bird eggs.

A " solar barge " ( also " solar bark ", " solar barque ", " solar boat " and " sun boat ") is a mythological representation of the sun riding in a boat.

* Lapacho ( also known as Taheebo ) is the inner-lining of the bark ( or cambium ) of the Red or Purple Lapacho Tree which grows in the Brazilian jungles.

Oak bark is also rich in tannin, and is used by tanners for tanning leather.

Aibos are also programmed to bark, find and play with their toys, and take " naps " when their batteries need recharging.

They also eat mature pollen cones, developing inner bark, terminal shoots, and tender young needles.

Washi is commonly made using fibres from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrub ( Edgeworthia papyrifera ), or the paper mulberry but can also be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat.

The best-accepted common name for Melaleuca is simply melaleuca ; however most of the larger species are also known as tea tree, and the smaller types as honey myrtles, while those species in which the bark is shed in flat, flexible sheets are referred to as paperbarks.

Pups will also bleat or bark when playing or in distress.

Inland areas with good river or wetland systems also tend to use much of the local freshwater fish & crustaceans as part of their diets, which can be prepared either using a local ingredient with mainstream methods, or cooked whole in traditional Aboriginal styles wrapped using leaves such as native ginger ( where available ) or in bark such as from the paperbark tree, which is common in wetland or marshy areas and river systems.

Proturans live chiefly in soil, moss and leaf litter of moist temperate forests that are not too acidic ; they have also been found beneath rocks or under the bark of trees, as well as in animal burrows.

* Birch-tar or Russian oil extracted from birch bark is thermoplastic and waterproof ; it was used as a glue on, for example, arrows, and also for medicinal purposes.

This bark also has been used widely in ancient Russia as note paper ( beresta ) and for decorative purposes and even making footwear.

Prevention primarily includes keeping the tree in good shape ; some further protections against Cryphonectria also help prevent bark death caused by Melanconis.

Tannins were also extracted from the bark for tanning leather.

* One should give people lucky presents to enhance the relationship between themselves and others: new clothes, peach branches ( for expelling evil ), cocks / chickens ( wishing for good manners ), new rice ( wishing for being well-fed ), rice wine in a gourd ( wishing for a rich and comfortable life ), bánh chưng ( or bánh tét ) and bánh dày which symbolize sky and earth ( for worshipping the ancestors ), red things ( red symbolizes happiness, luckiness, advantages ) like watermelon, dogs ( the bark – gâu gâu – sounds like the word giàu-richness in Vietnamese language ), medicated oil ( dầu in Vietnamese, also sounds similar to giàu ).

Recent research has indicated it is the presence of certain organic compounds, such as triterpenes and sterols, which serves to make the tree bark unattractive to the beetle species that spread the disease.

The lining serves as a disposable diaper, although the Navajo could clean and reuse the lining made of shredded juniper or cliffrose bark.

By far the greatest source of dyes has been from the plant kingdom, notably roots, berries, bark, leaves and wood, but only a few have ever been used on a commercial scale.

The exact source of the sound was not found because of the swampy terrain, but signs of active woodpeckers were found ( i. e., scaled bark and large tree cavities ).

The inner bark of the Blue Ash ( F. quadrangulata ) has been used as a source for a blue dye.

One variety of terebinth furnishes the pistachio nut and the thick bark of the tree is a source of a highly valued varnish and particular turpentine ( Modern French, térébenthine ).

Peru offers a branch of cinchona to Science ( from a 17th-century engraving ): Cinchona, the source of Peruvian bark, is an early remedy against malaria.

This refers to use of the bark of oaks ( the original source of tannin ) in some kinds of hide preservation.

The bark of some trees notably oak ( Quercus robur ) is a source of tannic acid, which is used in tanning.

The source of shellac resin is a brittle or flaky secretion of the female lac insect, Kerria lacca, found in the forests of Assam and Thailand and harvested from the bark of the trees where she deposits it to provide a sticky hold on the trunk.

He began harvesting tanoak bark from the canyon, a lucrative source of income at the time.

However, like slippery elm bark, the plant contains salicylic acid, which has long been used as a painkiller, and this may be the source of the name.

Cinchonism or quinism is a pathological condition in humans caused by an overdose of quinine or its natural source, cinchona bark.

These included Yew trees ( the bark is used for the cancer drug paclitaxel ); Hoodia ( from Namibia, a potential source of weight loss drugs ); half of Magnolias ( used as Chinese medicine for 5, 000 years to fight cancer, dementia and heart disease ); and Autumn crocus ( for gout ).

Cinchona bark, a source of quinine, was the first known treatment for malaria and other tropical diseases.

While active dogs, which bark, scratch, dig or bite at the source of the scent, were used initially by the CBSA, passive dogs allow the officer to circulate among passengers more peacefully, and are considered by the Agency to be more effective in the course of their work.

The effects of cinchona bark ( the botanical source from which quinidine is extracted ) had been commented on long before the understanding of cardiac physiology arose.

Tanneries that used hemlock bark as their source of tannin for curing leather began to appear in the late 1850s.

The sap and bark from the pulp logs was a major pollution source in the lower river.

Unusually for a butterfly, the female does not lay her eggs on the leaves or stem of the caterpillar's food source ( in this case violets ), but instead one or two meters above the woodland floor in the crevices of tree bark close to clumps of violets.

The bark of the Alstonia constricta and the Alstonia scholaris is a source of a remedy against malaria, toothache, rheumatism and snake bites.

Deciduous woodlands, which once covered Laois, provided a ready source of bark for a tanning industry, which converted animal hides into leather.

The bark is a source of tannin.

The source of the dye, which is soluble in alkali, is the bark and heart of the tree. Camwood is a red dye-wood imported from tropical West Africa, and obtained from the Baphia nifida, a leguminous tree, of the suborder Caesalpinieae.

The first step in all mills using wood ( trees ) as the fibre source is to remove the bark.

Quantities of the bark may be pressed for drinking water, making saxaul an important source of water in arid regions where it grows.