i have been cutting some trees that a farmer pushed down in a waterway and initially thought they were birch. it seems that every picture of a birch tree is completely white from the bottom to top, these trees have brown bark near the bottom... please help
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Jay Hayek
Extension Specialist, Forestry
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences jhayek@illinois.edu
Greetings Brett:
Without any pictures to work from, all I can do is supply you with a couple of possibilities: white poplar or quaking aspen.
Sometimes sycamore can have a predominance of mottled, white bark.