<p>Large, old-growth sweet birch (<i>Betula lenta</i>) on the summit of Bartlett Mountain, Wyoming County, within State Game Land 57.
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Sweet birches often develop cracked, plated bark as they age. Unlike many other birches, the bark doesn't peel away in papery masses.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/14922165@N00">Nicholas A. Tonelli</a> from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA
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