Quixoticgeek on Nostr: If you live in an urban area in Europe with large street trees. There's a very high ...

If you live in an urban area in Europe with large street trees. There's a very high likelihood that the older, larger trees have bark that look like this.

This is a close up of the bark of a London Plane tree (Platanus × hispanica). These trees became the street tree of choice during the industrial revolution and in the years that followed it due to an unusual characteristic of its bark.

It sheds.

When every home had a coal fire burning, and industry belched out giant plumes of smoke...
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