After my previous error I went out into Centennial Woods in search of a proper tree. I found a small paper birch sapling. It is smaller than the one that I found while I was at home, and the buds look more developed than they did on that one two weeks ago. I know that this a paper birch because it lacks the minty smell of its nearest look a like, the yellow birch. When I broke off a twig and scratch off some bark I did not get the minty smell. I thought that this was a cool way to distinguish the two species of trees because smell wouldn’t have been the first sense I would have used to identify a tree.
I was having trouble getting iNaturalist to work today so here is a map depicting my trees location within Centennial Woods. Its coordinates are 44°28’37.1″N 73°11’16.5″W