{"id":124,"date":"2023-03-11T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/?p=124"},"modified":"2023-03-11T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:51:00","slug":"tree-phenology-paper-birch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/2023\/03\/11\/tree-phenology-paper-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Phenology &#8211; Paper Birch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-silver-lighter-10-background-color has-background\">At rock point the most plentiful tree species is the Northern White Cedar. However, on the top of the bluff an interesting assortment of trees can be found including: red maples, oaks, paper birches, American beech, etc. The tree that I chose to investigate is the paper birch. The paper birch is one of my favorite trees. The bark is so unique and pretty, i love the contrast that it adds to the surrounding forest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"127\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/929E756C-AE57-48CF-9094-095D29406227_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/929E756C-AE57-48CF-9094-095D29406227_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/929E756C-AE57-48CF-9094-095D29406227_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/A633CB07-1869-4AF4-977C-590832215AA6_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/A633CB07-1869-4AF4-977C-590832215AA6_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/A633CB07-1869-4AF4-977C-590832215AA6_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/3E4ADDB3-770F-46E3-90B1-496BC8AEE9B8_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/3E4ADDB3-770F-46E3-90B1-496BC8AEE9B8_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/3E4ADDB3-770F-46E3-90B1-496BC8AEE9B8_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"125\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/231C6852-3EDD-4B96-A8FB-8D795B40B1CE_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/231C6852-3EDD-4B96-A8FB-8D795B40B1CE_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/231C6852-3EDD-4B96-A8FB-8D795B40B1CE_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-silver-lighter-10-background-color has-background\">My tree has a large split running down the side of it that almost looks like it may have been struck by lighting. It is incredibly tall maybe around 30-40ft tall. The trunk is skinnier then most paper birch trees found in the mountain. This is probably because by the water it is warmer so there is less competition holding them back from growing tall, then paper birches found at high elevations with a shorter growing season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-silver-lighter-10-background-color has-background\">Paper birch can sometimes be confused with gray birch, river birch, or yellow birch. Paper birch is distint from these three other options because their bark is a lot more white then the gray or silver birch. The bark also peels off in bigger sections, more paper-like, then the other birches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-529x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" width=\"752\" height=\"1456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-529x1024.jpeg 529w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-155x300.jpeg 155w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-768x1487.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-793x1536.jpeg 793w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1-1058x2048.jpeg 1058w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/IMG_7877-1.jpeg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At rock point the most plentiful tree species is the Northern White Cedar. However, on the top of the bluff an interesting assortment of trees can be found including: red maples, oaks, paper birches, American beech, etc. The tree that I chose to investigate is the paper birch. The paper birch is one of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/2023\/03\/11\/tree-phenology-paper-birch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree Phenology &#8211; Paper Birch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8297,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[712424,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trees","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/A633CB07-1869-4AF4-977C-590832215AA6_1_105_c-600x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/files\/2023\/03\/A633CB07-1869-4AF4-977C-590832215AA6_1_105_c-600x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Josslin Muto","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/author\/jhmuto\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/phenologyatrockpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}