\nWaiting last week at an office, I gazed out the window, where a tree drew my attention.\n<\/p>\n
The tree had a few familiar features; never had I seen them in the same tree. It looked like a birch, but was it? The bark was bronze, perhaps even red. Yet, it had that sideways grooving a birch has.\n<\/p>\n
\nI can’t recall seeing a birch with bark that colour. In fact, its trunk and bark reminded me of a cherry tree, yet its flowers were catkins rather than blossoms.\n<\/p>\n
Identifying a tree can be very difficult, especially when you see it from a distance and only once. I searched the internet and decided the tree in question must be a birch – but which kind? I concluded it wasn’t one native here.\n<\/p>\n
\nI looked at cherry birch<\/em> a few times. Finally I noticed the comparison to cherry bark, and its identity crystallized: I believe the tree to be cherry birch.\n<\/p>\n Cherry birch isn’t native here but is a known landscape tree.<\/p>\n \nSource:\n<\/p> \nontariotrees.com<\/a>\n<\/p> \nmortonarb.org<\/a><\/p> \nvirtualherbarium.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about tree identification: the tutor mentions cherry birch. Waiting last week at an office, I gazed out the window, where a tree drew my attention. The tree had a few familiar features; never had I seen them in the …<\/p>\n