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Taken in late November last year, this is a close-up of what I've only ever known as a "paper-bark tree." I remember seeing these trees as a kid and t

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Taken in late November last year, this is a close-up of what I've only ever known as a "paper-bark tree." I remember seeing these trees as a kid and trying to peel the largest layer of the thinnest sheet that I could, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

While it appears pale at first glance, the bark hides a surprising range of colours from honey blondes to deep mauves, bordering on beet tones in some areas.

Part of me wants to look up the proper name of the tree, and part of me suspects that there's an even chance it's unpronounceable or mundane (like the paper-bark tree - wouldn't that be an anti-climax...)

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

A close-up photograph of a tree trunk, with a slight upwards-angle. Only a thin sliver of the trunk is properly in focus, most of it is blurry to some extent. In the background in the bottom-right corner is the sky, and in the top-right corner is some dark green foliage, heavily blurred due to depth-of-field, likely the leaves of either this tree or a near-by tree. The trunk of this tree is layered, and each layer is made up of thin sheets almost like filo pastry or something similar. There are lines and markings across the surface of the bark. One piece of bark is pulled away from the trunk and exposes a darker underside. The normal bark is predominantly a pale colour, mostly a grey-yellow-white, and the inner bark is a darker mauve-purple-honey mix

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