Betula alleghaniensis colored, peeling bark of yellow birch. For young trees where bark has not yet developed, yellow birch can also be identified by its hairy buds and stems; sweet birch has hairless buds. The yellow birch was first described by François André Michaux in 1812 as "Betula lutea". In 1904, Nathaniel Lord Britton described what he considered to be a new closely related species of birch as "Betula alleghaniensis", differing from "B. lutea" by its shorter fruiting scales and mostly cordate (vs. rarely cordate) leaf bases. After comparing the descriptions and illustrations of "B. lutea" and "B. alleghaniensis", Merritt Fernald found
Eucalyptus rigidula Eucalyptus rigidula Eucalyptus rigidula, commonly known as stiff-leaved mallee, is a mallee that is native to Western Australia. The mallee typically grows to a height of . The bark of the tree is smooth and white-grey brown in colour and peels in ribbony strips at the base. It blooms between December and April producing inflorescences with white flowers. The bark is smooth and powdery with no pith of bark glands. The disjunct, glossy, green or yellow-green adult leaves have a lanceolate to broad lanceolate shaped blade that is basally tapered. The thick concolorous blade is in length and wide. The