Identify by Leaf

Narrows Toward Elongate Tip

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Leaf narrow, usually more than twice as long as wide
American Hornbeam


Leaf wider, only about twice as long as wide
Yellow Birch
Black Birch
Eastern Hophornbeam
NOTE: Read these three fact pages to separate these similar kinds of trees.

 

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