Green, photosynthetic patches of bark and cork strips on an Australian bottle tree, Brachychiton ruprestre A bottle tree of Australia, Brachychiton rupestris (Family Sterculiaceae), maintains green, apparently photosynthetic bark over its lifetime. This view on the swollen trunk shows how the bark has expanded by formed gray strips of cork cells between the green patches. This species is native to Queensland, where it forms a beautiful tree reaching twenty meters in height, and a swollen trunk that may be greater than ten meters in circumference.

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