Question: Dear Mr. Botanist, I am clearing out a garden bed, and I found this sapling growing. I'd like to identify …
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Dear Mr. Botanist, I am clearing out a garden bed, and I found this sapling growing. I'd like to identify it, so I know whether it should stay or it should go. I think it might be a Linden tree, because there is a mature specimen nearby. However it also looks like a White Mulberry tree. Can you identify? Thank you.
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Stephen, the winter buds look like those of Tilia (linden), which have a certain color and shape (often they have a red hue or a slight reddish infusion of a brown background and are asymmetrical, somewhat bulged on one side). I don't know which species of Tilia this is, but it looks like that genus to me. Best wishes.
