Handbook of the Trees of New England With Ranges Throughout the United States a
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In the sunlight the silvery-yellow feathering and the metallic sheen of trunk and branches make the yellow birch one of the most attractive trees of the New England forest. Bark. Bark of trunks and large limbs in old trees gray or blackish, lustreless, deep-seamed, split into thick plates, stand- ing out at all sorts of angles ; in trees 6-8 inches in diameter, scarf-bark lustrous, parted in ribbon-like strips, detached at one end and running up the trunk in delicate, tattered fringes ; season'...s shoots light yellowish-green, minutely buff-dotted, woolly-pubescent, becoming in successive seasons darker and more lustrous, the dots elongating into horizontal lines. Aro- matic but less so than the bark of the black birch ; not readily detachable like the bark of the canoe birch. Winter Buds and Leaves. Buds conical, ^ inch long, mostly appressed, tips of scales brownish. Leaves simple, in alter- nate pairs or scattered singly along the stem; 3-5 inches 64 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. long, ^-2 inches wide, dull green on both sides, paler beneath and more or less pubescent on the straight veins ; outline oval to oblong, for the most part doubly serrate ; apex acumi- nate or acute ; base heart-shaped, obtuse or truncate ; leaf- stalk short, grooved, often pubescent or woolly ; stipules soon falling.
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