Didn't plant anything resembling this

[spandit]

Out of my 1500 trees, I've found a few that have grown into something like this:

 

 

The only trees I planted in spirals were hazel, spindle, hawthorn & blackthorn (or at least, that's what the order said)

 

Not sure if it's the same as this:

 

 

But there are a few that look like this - good growers (possibly downy birch?)

[Mountain man]

Certainly looks like birch.

[Graham]

Birch.

[spandit]

Certainly looks like birch.

 

There are plenty of silver birch coming up naturally but these have definitely been deliberately planted - there are no other bareroot trees in the same tubes/spirals so must have been a mix-up at the nursery. Not overly bothered, having a mixture is good, but would just like to know what they are.

 

Busy surveying all my trees at the moment - ordered a load of numbered cable ties to mark the ones that didn't make it:

 

 

Surveying them takes quite a while and entering it all into a database takes even longer but I do like being nerdy with statistics

[Mountain man]

If I recall the underside of the leaf will tell you if its silver or white/downy birch.

[spandit]

If I recall the underside of the leaf will tell you if its silver or white/downy birch.

 

I'll have a closer look when I'm next out - thanks!

[kev7937]

If I recall the underside of the leaf will tell you if its silver or white/downy birch.

 

 

Think the hairs are teeny and hard to spot with the naked eye.

 

That was certainly the case at college anyway, even the lecturer struggled.

[Lucan]

Silver birch

[Mountain man]

Examining the photos they do not seem to be the same leaf. The second one is birch for sure. But the veins on the first are different, plus the leaf is paler. Poplar of some description?

[spandit]

The only poplar I planted was aspen and that should have been in tubes, not spirals. Curious.

 

Don't think it's silver birch as leaves are far too big. Downy birch seems like a candidate - not overly impressed at the nursery mix-up but at least they're putting on some growth which is more than can be said for some of the other species I put in!