Winter Bud ID

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The clue is the bud stem, it looks sort of like turkey skin.

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That 'turkey skin' is what I was staring at yesterday!
(So appropriate for this past Holiday, Tom.)

I've seen that on some Whitebeams (Sorbus) and/or sometimes on crabapple trees. To me, though, the buds don't match with these.
But maybe it's because they are in an early stage of dormancy(?)...
or I'm still way off.


-Diane
 
If you read the tea leaves in my last post, you will find the path. Another feature of this Genus has the 'turkey skin,' but I honestly do not know why these twigs have it, other than the fact that they are semi-latent spurs or twigs.

-Tom
 
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If you read the tea leaves in my last post, you will find the path.

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Sorry, Master Yoda, but...

UnfortunateIy, my lunch break is over and I must leave this auspicious place.
I have work to do in other galaxies.
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This is now for those few remaining (and tenacious) brave.


-Diane
 
Well, no wonder I was wandering off track, I thought you had said 'no' to Birch.
I'll have to follow the tea leaves more closely next time.


My final offer = Betula nigra

-Diane
 
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Betula alleghaniensis

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Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am! You are up!

PS - The tree I am perched in in my avatar is Yellow Birch... The pic was from a small sapling right next to it along the river.
 
Hey when I guessed Ostrya you should have said closer cause its in the Birch family.
It was my second guess bion
So go chew it, really its got a nice wintergreen flavour.
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got one for ya all in the mornin
 
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