Wondering around my trees today I noticed a few that I didn't recognise. After some discussion with the good people at Arbtalk, they have been identified as downy birch, betula pubescens or silver birch, betula pendula. I didn't order any birch (because there are enough self seeding and it rots so quickly it has limited value for me) so there must have been a mix up at the nursery! As you can see, some are in tubes and some are in spirals, so it's not just one species that has been muddled up:
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