A single Pinus bungeana, or lacebark pine, stands at the grove's edge, its mottled green, gray and white bark a stark contrast to the red pines.
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In 1883, the French naturalist F�lix-Archim�de Pouchet wrote that lacebark was " as fine as our muslin and even takes its place in the toilet of our ladies ".
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Another venerable specimen grows behind this grove : the lacebark pine, Pinus bungeana, whose bark looks like a jigsaw puzzle of amoeba shapes in gray, ivory, olive and bronze.
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The British collector Hans Sloane shown holding a drawing of the lacebark plant in a detail of a 1736 painting by Stephen Slaughter that is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Characterized by its escarpments, this orography prevented the deposit of significant amounts of loess, and make the area the least propicious to lacebark pines grow along the range, possibly introduced from Asia.
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Although the main steps of lacebark production are clear detaching the entire bark from the tree, extracting the inner bark, and pulling apart the layers the details of the process are not well documented.
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However, commercial-scale production never took off, and by the 1880s, most lacebark appears to have been shifted into the creation of tourist souvenirs such as doilies, fans, and ornamental whips.
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If the lacebark dried out too much during the process of extraction, it would be soaked or boiled in water to restore flexibility, a process that also softened the lacebark by removing some naturally stiffening substances.
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If the lacebark dried out too much during the process of extraction, it would be soaked or boiled in water to restore flexibility, a process that also softened the lacebark by removing some naturally stiffening substances.
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At least two monarchs of Great Britain have been given lacebark clothing : King Thomas Lynch, then governor of Jamaica, and Queen Victoria, who was presented with a lacebark dress at the 1851 Great Exhibition.
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