Bark (botany) rope, used for example in the rigging of Viking age longships. Among the commercial products made from bark are cork, cinnamon, quinine (from the bark of Cinchona) and aspirin (from the bark of willow trees). The bark of some trees notably oak ("Quercus robur") is a source of tannic acid, which is used in tanning. Bark chips generated as a by-product of lumber production are often used in bark mulch in western North America. Bark is important to the horticultural industry since in shredded form it is used for plants that do not thrive in ordinary soil, such as epiphytes.
Willow (Dreadstar) Willow (Dreadstar) Willow is a fictional character in the comics space opera "Dreadstar", created by American artist Jim Starlin. She was introduced in the first issue of Dreadstar's regular series and had her origin told in issue 2. Willow is a cybernetic telepath, a rare kind of telepath who has the ability of sensing and commanding computers and robotic devices as well as sentient minds. She used a "seeing-eye monk" named Rainbow as her eyes as she could telepathically see what the monkey saw. As first seen in "Dreadstar" #1, Willow was part of a team informally known as "Dreadstar