I took a walk into Centennial Woods today and identified this Paper Birch. It has the characteristic white, peeling bark, which distinguishes it even in the winter when it lacks leaves. It showed no signs however of budding or flowering. It is still quite cold and snowy. Soon however it will warm up and Spring will come and I hope to see buds, then flowers on the trees here.
I made an iNaturalist post to record my findings. I record the tree as having “no evidence of flowering”.
