At the very end loomed an ancient paper-bark tree, about fifty metres high, and someone had climbed way up into the foliage and tied a rope over the bough that hangs out over the water. ❋ Brentley Frazer (2012)
Fothergilla, amelanchier, styrax japonicus, paper-bark maple, viburnums of all kinds, a 'green man' from Bamberg mine's from Norwich Cathedral. ❋ Pooky (2008)
Few of the forest trees are more picturesque than the paper-bark or tea-tree (MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON), the “Tee-doo” of the blacks. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Here in January it became necessary to repair the roof of the boat-shed, and to keep the ridge covering of paper-bark in position, two long saplings were tied parallel with the ridge pole. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When the moon is on the other side of the world, with spears and flaring torches of paper-bark, he rushes in a band to raid the reef, to the dismay of startled and bewildered fish. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Crossed at seven and a half miles large creek with oaks, gums, paper-bark trees. ❋ John McKinlay (N/A)
Gums, palms, and the paper-bark trees at six and three-quarter miles. ❋ John McKinlay (N/A)
Let us sing the rosellas who buckle under branches for the paper-bark blossom, and the far distant shadows on slate-roofs. ❋ Stephen Oliver (N/A)
Afterwards the arm-bone is wrapt up in paper-bark and wound round with fur-string, so as to make a torpedo-shaped parcel, which is kept by ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
Scald a two-inch piece of paper-bark cinnamon with the milk to be used in making the cocoa. ❋ Janet McKenzie Hill (1892)
Few of the forest trees are more picturesque than the paper-bark or tea-tree (MELALEUCA LEUCADENDRON), the "Tee-doo" of the blacks. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Layers of the bark readily peel off; hence it also receives the name of paper-bark plant. ❋ William Saunders (1861)
Its width at bottom was not more than forty or fifty feet, on each side rose cliffs of sandstone between three and four hundred feet high and nearly perpendicular; lofty paper-bark trees grew here and there, and down the middle ran a beautiful stream of clear, cool water, which now gushed along, a murmuring mountain torrent, and anon formed a series of small cascades. ❋ George Grey (1855)
As we ascended higher the width contracted; the paper-bark trees disappeared; and the bottom of the valley became thickly wooded with wild nutmeg and other fragrant trees. ❋ George Grey (1855)
Behind the house is an old barn that’s about to fall down, and past the barn is a rectangle of wild land with hip-high grass, fierce blackberry bushes, and a stand of white paper-bark trees drowning in the overgrowth. ❋ JENNIFER LAUCK (2001)