Poplar trees typically have grey, white, or sometimes black bark. Often you can see dark "lenticels" or lines in the bark that may appear like horizontal scores.

Can you tell me what the large tree is with the white bark growing along the Flint River? Is it a White birch or a poplar of some sort? It is so striking compared to the other trees growing in the ...

Poplar trees may provide beautiful fall foliage, ... Paper birches will adorn your yard with the distinctive bright-white color of their outer bark.

Now his company employs up to 20 people in season, typically June and July, peeling, cutting and kiln-drying up to 140,000 square feet of tulip poplar bark.