Todd: The leaf shape definitely pinpoints it as yellow birch. The bark looks somewhat like paper birch, but its yellow birch with lighter than average color of the bark. I have seen that trait in yellow birch near the northern edge of their range before.
Lee Todd Rautenberg wrote: > Hi folks, > > While exploring a recovering forest on old fields that haven't been > farmed in 80+ years I found this tree. The woodlot is in southern Cape > Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Can anyone help me identify the tree? It > looks like some kind of birch to me, but I am new to this. > > Big mossy tree, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/33904...@n03/3263118419/sizes/l/ > > A view from a different angle: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/33904...@n03/3263947400/sizes/l/ > > --Todd > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
