{"id":2015,"date":"2010-08-16T21:03:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2010-08-16T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T01:03:44","slug":"yellow-birch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/yellow-birch\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Birch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain about this one, but my best guess, from studying the Virginia Department of Forestry tree identification guide and doing further research on the Internet, is that it is a yellow birch (<em>betula alleghaniensis<\/em>).  If I&#8217;ve learned anything from posting these findings it is that I need to take more pictures of leaf patterns, the leaves themselves (both sides), and the bark of the tree that the leaves are part of!  Sigh &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Yellow-Birch.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Birch.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve read, the birch is a pioneer species that rapidly colonizes disturbed land.  That doesn&#8217;t fit my property at all, but I don&#8217;t have any other ideas of what the tree might be.  I wish that I had looked at the bark of the tree &#8211; that would have settled the question for certain.  This is the tree whose bark was used by the Iroquois, among others, to make canoes.  I&#8217;ll take my books and camera and do some further investigation in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not certain about this one, but my best guess, from studying the Virginia Department of Forestry tree identification guide and doing further research on the Internet, is that it is a yellow birch (betula alleghaniensis). If I&#8217;ve learned anything <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/yellow-birch\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,23,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}