Today I headed back to Centennial Woods to identify a tree. The ground was deceptively slippery and I did slide down into the woods, but I made it to a tree which I identified as American Beech.
One thing that made this tree immediately identifiable was its bark: it had the beech bark disease that we used to identify them in the past. Its bark was also smooth and grey, which we also used to identify it. We knew it wasn’t a young maple because of these factors.
Another successful tromp in the woods! I am excited to see when this tree develops buds and blooms.