One of the most characteristic traits of a birch tree is its whitish colored bark. Birches are pretty common here in the Interior of British Columbia, and when I started paying attention to what I was seeing out in the bush, I noticed that I never saw a young sapling with white bark. I soon realized that the reason for that was that as a young tree, birches have dark reddish brown bark. It is not until adolescence that the dark bark peels off and is replaced with the whitish bark.
I noticed this birch growing on the dam of my pond in transition and thought it showed the process fairly well. Its trunk is about 2.5 inches (6.35cm) in diameter.
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