Birch with brown bottom trunck?
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Birch with brown bottom trunck?

Charline

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Is it a silver birch? Is the top grafted onto a different tree?


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Shortsighted

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Could be a Gray birch or Sweet birch, or as you suggested a Silver birch ... not really sure about it. It could also be an aspen that often resembles a birch. The shedding of barkcan create the dramatic differences between the outer thinner and lighter fiber and the thicker, darker old bark. I guess you'll need to do some research and let us know.


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The answer is: White Poplar.


It's in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Most trees have tags. This one does not. Fortunately the office has one copy of the tree names and the locations.


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How about that, chief. The old poplar in plain sight trick, and I fell for it. Would you believe ... that I suspected it all along? I didn't think so. One might think that with a family friend having owned and operated a campsite called Popular Grove, thereby having allowed me to see poplar trees all around me, listening to poplar music with the wind molesting their leaves, that I would know a poplar tree when I see one; and that I could recall those distant memories of being haunted by popular tree shadows in the moonlight while trying to sleep, or that I could recall the taste of popular bark ... hold on, hold on, this is getting serious, sounding like poplar obsession, a poplar cult (its members all walk funny because they stick a poplar sapling up their ... well, cult members don't talk about that ... there is no cult!

Excuse me, (cough), good of you to investigate and bring this query to a satisfactory resolution.   
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The answer is: White Poplar.
Latin (scientific) name: Populus alba.   So, I'm now going to name this tree "Jessica" - as in actress Jessica Alba.   :D . Sorry everyone, just me being silly. 
Jo-Anne :)

"If what you see by the eye doesn't please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart".