Long string like buds
Paper, peeling bark
Alternate branching on deciduous tree
TREE ID NOTES: red buds, spiral arrangement of needles connecting directly to the stem, shortness of the needles, needles are very green unlike white spruce which have blueish needles
ID Notes:
Deciduous tree. Still has dead leaves from last year, but had rounded leaves unlike red oak, didn't have the deep grooves of bur oak.
Alternate twigs with bundles of buds at the ends.
DBH: 20.8 inches
1) Green-brown buds
2) White bark
3) Reddish brown twigs
DBH is ~4 inches