unlikely epiphyte
Here's a 5" diameter black birch growing out of a head-height scar in a big old honey locust (at Taconic State Park, found on vacation). This kind of growth — an "epiphyte" — rarely grows so large ...
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An elder black birch
Black birch (betula lenta) is the bark that changes the most as the tree ages. The diameter of this trunk is almost two feet: Only one patch of bark, on the lower portion of trunk, hints at the ...
Black birch
Young bark on the black birch (betula lenta) looks like the patch at right (almost smooth with horizontal lenticel marks), and mature bark has many rough areas as at left, but mid-sized trees often...