Talk:Water Birch
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Height vs. girth in discussing tree size: When we refer to a tree's size (such as "a small tree") does size always refer to height? I have an old river birch in my back yard that is around 25M tall, but it's still a giant tree, with the base of the trunk at around 8 ft. in diameter, and with each of the five individual trunk shoots at around 2-3 ft in diameter. I'm not sure that a 25M tree is necessarily small, maybe we should specify short, vs stout, etc. Reklawpj 20:49, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
