What tree is this?

Birch?

In Spokane.

White birch.

Thank you Sir.

Yep white birch tree

Definitely a betula (birch) family member. We only have the river birch B. nigra down here but the similarity of light papery bark, multi angular trunks, limb and twig structure are all classic birch.

I lack the experience, though, to say which one specifically.

Fire starter tree

Birch i find a lot of mushrooms around and under them here in southeast kansas.

Also the tree you find Chaga on

A wooden one.....

White birch AKA paper birch.

I'm going to say ponderosa pine but you need to move around to the other side of the building and get a better picture for a more positive ID.

... unless you mean the one in the foreground, in which case it's a light post, not a tree.

I 2nd that motion!

One in every bunch!

I put 5 clumps of those in front of my new home 28-29 years ago. Pretty tree. I think they might have been called clump birch cause they had 3 trunks about the size of a 50 cent coin and when I finally had to remove them they were about the size of a coffee can. They have small leaves that turn yellow and then when they would fall off in the fall of the year I was always hopeing the wind would be coming from NNE cause normal wind in our area of n. Idaho is from the SSW and the leaves would blow off and land in my swimming pool behind the house and make a mess. Anyway their life span is 20-25 years before problems I think. Had to remove mine finally.

Most of our region is pure birch forest as far as your eyes can see. There are many forms and varieties (species delimitation is sometimes problematic) - some, especially the more notherly forms, are small, relatively short-lived and more prone to fungal infections, but some are big, stately trees that stay pretty and healthy for many decades. Many alleys in my hometown are lined with birch. It is a pretty tree with a nice light, lacy shade, plus there are many good edible mycorrhizal mushrooms growing under it (various boletes and brittlegills) and also there's a possibility to collect sap in the spring. Here, people often plant it on their properties on bogged spots, especially near vegetable gardens, because it draws excessive moisture away during the summer months, like willows and alder, but does not create as much shade. Pollen can be a problem, though, if you're allergic to it.

That's a good size birch. I think they are really cool trees, they do seem to rot faster than most others. I had to cut one down on my property last fall that was too big at the base to make one pass with a 24" bar on the saw. It was dead most of the way up and ready to fall on my deer blind in the next good wind.

At first glance one might think it’s white/paper Birch, but , it’s a Grey Birch.

Betula
in the birch family
you have to look at the seed heads and wings as well as the leaf pattern for what species it is; there are several that look the same as paper birch

This is the year of the seed production so lots of the finch family species can be seen feeding in the trees.
Interesting that during/ after forest fires the birch really colonize after a spring/ summer on these years. Biggest food source of the ungulates in the boreal forest are birch forest

You might be right, hard for me to tell without seeing the leaves.

Looking closer, the bark does look more like gray birch than paper birch.

I was leaning the same way Squash...I'm pretty sure that was where Warrior was going with not enough to go on..

Little to none bark exfoliations, and black triangular patches below branch insertions, Grey Birch.

Or as my Dendrology professor put it "Hairy Armpits!"

definately not grey birch

It's a cactus

Paper Birch would be in it's native range have that bark and common for multi trunk

or a Grey birch opposite side of the country form native range but it's a landscape tree so no telling it is also common in multi trunk

the leaf would be the deciding factor in a visual ID

paper more rounded and grey more triangulate and pointed

They are everywhere up here…..I start my camp fires with birch bark….lights when wet

Yep same here

Just for the sake of discussion, more pics of other trees and leaves.
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looks like a common birch tree to me

White or grey?

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These trees are all planted in a row behind a motel.

I have two in my yard that I started as seedlings. The bark peels off and is great for starting fires. I'd have to say mine are paper birch trees.

Well, those leaves do not look like they came from a grey birch...

I think you have a mix there

the bark of your first post looks like a paper birch

the bark of your last picture in post Post7498297 looks like river birch the top leaf in that post looks like paper birch while the next leave down looks river birch

now can you take a picture of the 2 leaves with a size reference ?

paper birch leaves should be 2-5 inches long while river birch 1.5-3 inches long so even some overlap there

I guess this could be a a good example of how you control what is shown leads people in different directions until the whole picture is seen

I agree, but it looks like photos of trees are from different trees ? Grey Birch leaves are triangular.

It does look like two different trees maybe. A couple have old leaves hanging on...the others are barren of leaves.

Planted in a row...it's probably some kind of white birch cultivar from a nursery

I can see that someone cut deep into the tree with the dead leaves and removed a wrapping off, and probably cutoff the moisture going to those leaves.

Good eye!