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.

In areas with an abundance of timber, wooden shingles are used, while in some countries the bark of certain trees can be peeled off in thick, heavy sheets and used for roofing.

To conserve water, trees have thick bark ; most have tiny leaves, and some drop their leaves during this season.

The bark of most pines is thick and scaly, but some species have thin, flaking bark.

The remaining species usually survive bushfire, either because they have very thick bark that protects the trunk from fire, or because they have lignotubers from which they can resprout after fire.

Many species are ‘ half-barks ’ or ‘ blackbutts ’ in which the dead bark is retained in the lower half of the trunks or stems — for example, E. brachycalyx, E. ochrophloia and E. occidentalis — or only in a thick, black accumulation at the base, as in E. clelandii.

Sequoia bark is fibrous, furrowed, and may be thick at the base of the columnar trunk.

The bark is deeply ridged, composed of thin, woodlike plates separating heavy layers of cork ; bark of trees over 1 m ( 3 feet ) in diameter is from 15 – 20 cm ( 6-8 inches ) thick.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, has several features to tolerate and survive wildfire, notably the very thick bark, and the presence of numerous adventitious buds on the upper side of the branches ; this enables the trees to survive even crown fires which burn off all the branchlets, the apparently dead trees becoming green again the following spring.

The bark is thin and smooth in young trees, becoming thick, ridged, and plate-like with age.

It is protected from smaller fires by its thick bark.

The roots are thick, fleshy, covered with bright orange bark.

Cedrus is a tree up to 30 – 40 m ( occasionally 60 m ) tall with spicy-resinous scented wood, thick ridged or square-cracked bark, and broad, level branches.

Its skin is black and thick, like the bark of an old oak …, its head in proportion to the body is small …, it has no teeth, but only two flat white bones — one above, the other below ".

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 ).

The bark of the mature trunk is thick, red-brown, and deeply furrowed.

New growth sprouting vigorously from Epicormic shoots | epicormic buds beneath the thick Bushfires in Australia | bushfire damaged bark of a Eucalyptus tree

* Epicormic buds under the often thick bark of the trunk and branches are ready to sprout new stems and leaves after a fire.

In the cork oak ( Quercus suber ) the bark is thick enough to be harvested as a cork product without killing the tree ; in this species the bark may get very thick ( e. g. more than 20 cm has been reported ).

image: PodocarpusTotaraBark. jpg | The reddish-grey bark of the tōtara is thick, corky, furrowed and stringy

Palaeographic evidence of an older Hindu temple on the site emerged from an inscription on a thick stone slab recovered from the debris of the demolished structure in 1992.

Another key differentiation between older and modern vessels is that all modern warships are " soft ", without the thick armor and bulging anti-torpedo protection of WWII and older designs.

The interiors are also in keeping with the English Tudor architectural style found on most of the older buildings in the area, with thick plaster walls, hardwood floors, and leaded windows ( since replaced with more energy-efficient double-pane windows ).

Success in Aachen was measured by the number of houses captured, as the advance proved to be sluggish ; in order to cope with the thick walls of the older buildings in the city, the 26th Infantry Regiment used the howitzer at point blank range to destroy German fortifications.

The leaves are awl-shaped, 1-1. 5 cm long, about 1 mm thick at the base on young trees, and incurved, 5 – 10 mm long and variably 2 – 4 mm broad on older trees.

The firing glass is much older than the shot glass, and has a very specific shape with relatively thin sides, and a very thick protruding base.

Possessing neither pseudobulbs nor rhizome, Phalaenopsis shows a monopodial growth habit: a single growing stem produces one or two alternate, thick, fleshy, elliptical leaves a year from the top while the older, basal leaves drop off at the same rate.

To the left and right of the gate are vestiges of the older walls, dating between the 6th and 3rd century B. C., making a rampart 16 meters thick.

They are round thick walled spores produced within or terminally on an older mycelium or in macroconidia.

Bark is gray on young trees and small branches, changing to black and plated on larger branches and the trunk ; becoming quite thick on older trunks.

The older generation of Darwin's tutors were rather negative, and later in May he told his cousin Fox that " the attacks have been falling thick & heavy on my now case-hardened hide .— Sedgwick & Clarke opened regular battery on me lately at Cambridge Phil.

There are two different ways of preparing pastiera: in the older, the ricotta is mixed with the eggs ; in the newer, thick pastry cream is added, making the pastiera softer.

The three would adopt thick Taiwanese accents when speaking Mandarin, which endeared them to local fans, although eventually it was revealed that the older brother, Jeff Huang, was born in Huwei Township in Taiwan's County and younger brother, Stanley Huang, was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

Many older branches have 3-4 irregular thick corky wings.

The thick ribs, especially on the older outer leaves, should have a milky fluid which gives the romaine the typically fine-bitter herb taste.

Ivory-billeds are known to prefer thick hardwood swamps and pine forests, with large amounts of dead and decaying trees.

The outer fence at Hahu I measured in several places, and found it to be from 2 to 3 feet thick, and most of the logs, or rather trees, of which it was formed, had taken root and were throwing out leaves and shoots.

On mature trees, it is thick and corky.

On mature trees, it is moderately thick ( 3 – 6 cm ), furrowed and corky though much less so than coast Douglas-fir.

So stout are the trees the structure supports that their trunks are eight cubits thick and their height as much as fifty feet ; they bear fruit as abundantly as if they were growing in their natural environment.

Here, light levels on the woodland floor are extremely low owing to the thick growth of the pollarded trees.

Mallee are small eucalyptus trees and shrubs with many small stems and thick underground roots that retain water.

The December 2008 Northeast ice storm ( December 11, 2008 ) inflicted heavy damage on the forests in the town, coating trees with a ½-inch to 1-inch thick layer of ice.

German settlers nicknamed the settlement " Hickory Town " after the thick groves of hickory trees that grew in the area.

There is a field here that once had a thick grove of oak trees at its northern end.

They have even been found to nest in rabbit burrows, ruins with cavities large enough to host nesting and old poplar hedges which have numerous cavities for nesting, and in cracks in crag or cliff faces, in ivy, or in the thick growth round the boles of common lime ( linden ) trees.

The habitats of the Stock Dove are in more or less open country, for though it often nests in trees it prefers parklands to thick woods.

The T-26 could cross 0. 75 m high vertical obstacles and 2. 1 m wide trenches, ford 0. 8 m deep water obstacles, cut 33 cm thick trees and climb 40 ° gradients.

They are large, deciduous trees 20 – 45 m tall, distinguished by thick, deeply fissured bark and triangular-based to diamond-shaped leaves that are green on both sides ( without the whitish wax on the undersides of balsam poplar leaves ) and without any obvious balsam scent in spring.

The newly bare trees open up the canopy layer, enabling sunlight to reach ground level and facilitate the growth of thick underbrush.

The higher areas are covered in species of pemphis, thick coastal shrubs, while the lower areas which are home to the giant tortoises, are a mixture of trees, shrubs, herbs and grasses.

They make the nests in trees with thick foliage, making them difficult for predators to find.

The " cerrado " trees have characteristic twisted trunks covered by a thick bark, and leaves which are usually broad and rigid.

Pigeons tend to congregate in large, often thick flocks when feeding on discarded food, and have been observed flying skillfully around trees, buildings, telephone poles and cables, and through moving traffic just to reach a food source.