exfoliating
As in exfoliating bark that peels off in layers. A good example of this can be seen on our native Arbutus menziesii (Pacific Madrone).
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Exfoliating Peeling away; bark that peels and sheds off.
Exotic Said of a plant not native; rare or tropical plants.
Explant Any removed portion of a plant used for tissue culture.
exfoliating Peeling off in shards or thin layers, as in bark from a tree.
exoskeleton The outer support structure of an insect.
exotic Non-native.
Exfoliating bark is another characteristic that adds richness to the winter garden. Heritage river birch (Betula nigra 'Heritage'), for example, has a papery, layered look.
Instead of having three to five main trunks with beautiful exfoliating bark, you typically get five or six sprouts on each trunk and the plants become a large shrub instead of a stately small tree.
Its exfoliating bark is bright rust-orange color and quite dramatic. It has leathery leaves 10-20 cm in length and white clusters of racemes in the fall.
In winter, however, the thin, smooth-textured bark with its curious exfoliating patterns of pink under gray gives a startling fascination to a winter landscape.
You'll love this tree all year for its colorful exfoliating bark. All but young wood begins flaking to cream, light green, reddish-brown, or sometimes just gray and white. The attractive pink-tinged green cones take several years to ripen.
Complex branching patterns of an Acer palmatum hold the eye when the trees are bare, and the texture of papery exfoliating bark (the orange-brown bark of Acer griseum or the light tan and darker cinnamon-brown bark of Heptacodium miconioides, ...
It sports reddish-brown, exfoliating bark on mature wood and glossy, dark green foliage. The flowers are small, white, powder puff-like, and borne in clusters.
Lacebark pine has attractive exfoliating bark in patches of green and brown which makes it a good single or multi-stem specimen tree. Needles are medium to dark green about 3 inches long.
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This time we mix some of the ground olive pits in with the oil and some cocoa butter, to make an exfoliating hand scrub.
Loofah body sponge for washing and exfoliating the skin. by Brett Mulcahy from Fotolia.com
References
Growing Luffa Gourds
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This attractive climber grows a cinnamon exfoliating bark with deep glossy green foliage. It produces a waterfall of fragrant clusters of white flowers 6-10 inches wide attached to a 1 inch stalk making it a stunning vine when in bloom.
Bark is an interesting combination of brown and gray, often exfoliating slightly on older wood to expose an orange-red to rust-colored underbark.
Photos: Judy Sedbrook ...
As an espalier, the climbing hydrangea adds a formal dimension to your garden, and the structure of its winter branches—in addition to its exfoliating bark—offers as much ornament out of flower as in.
whilst in Winter you can enjoy the structural skeleton of the naked plant, it`s orange buds and exfoliating copper-tan coloured bark.
 See also: Flower, Plant, Soil, Shade, Foliage
  
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