Peeling bark on a young birch

The time has come for young birch trees to exfoliate the top layer of bark. The old ones are dirty and covered with lichen. The new layer of bark appears pure white. Old birch trees do not peel off their bark.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

ooooh nice indeed, dof and textures are fantastic

[Beryl Lloyd]

Such a beautiful bark -- great capture of great focus , textures and colour tones ! - fav

[carol white]

Great textures.Fav🙂

[Corinne C]

Beautiful close-up and interesting fact!

[Rob Z]

Marvellous details and textures.

[Kathy]

A pretty close up.

[Call me Joe]

👌❤️👌

[Mags]

Oh! Nice textures!

[sarah]

Love it

[Lin]

Great textures.

[Islandgirl]

Nice textures!

[Taffy]

Love the textures.

[Heather]

Wonderful capture of textures and gradations of white. (I didn't know this about birch trees. Thank you!) Fav

[MamaBec]

Great textures and I loved the information provided.

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful texture shot. Interesting information. I did not know that old ones didn’t peel.

[Carolinesdreams]

Am interesting profess for a nature loving photographer. Beautifully shot.

[Wylie]

fascinating, I didn't know that!

[Lady Magpie (Heather)]

Nice detail and textures. FAV

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[Margaret Brown]

Lovely peeling bark nice textures

[KV]

Gorgeous bark… great texture and detail.

[Kate]

Fabulous closeup

[bruni]

I never knew. awesome the way the younger trees shed their bark. fav.