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Stringy bark

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(Bot.) a name given in Australia to several trees of the genus Eucalyptus (as E. amygdalina, obliqua, capitellata, macrorhyncha, piperita, pilularis, ), which have a fibrous bark used by the aborigines for making cordage and cloth.

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Brushes are whittled or chewed and shaped from strips of stringy bark and pliant green twigs.
The city nevertheless has an active replacement and maintenance program, so that some of the trees are recently planted saplings barely an inch in diameter, while most are grizzled old timers, about three or more feet in girth, with thick stringy bark peeling from their trunks.
Brushes are simply made, mostly from strips of stringy bark or pliant green twigs.
 
 
 
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