Birch

Description: "A birch has smooth, resinous, varicoloured or white bark, marked by horizontal pores (lenticels), which usually peels ... more

Birch ... horizontally in thin sheets, especially on young trees. On older trunks the thick, deeply furrowed bark breaks into irregular plates. Short, slender branches rise to a narrow pyramidal crown on a young tree; they become horizontal, often pendulous, on an older tree. The egg-shaped or triangular, usually pointed leaves have toothed margins; they are alternately arranged on the branchlets. They are usually bright green, turning yellow in autumn. The drooping male catkins flower before the leaves emerge; smaller, upright female catkins on the same tree develop in conelike clusters, which disintegrate at maturity, releasing tiny, one-seeded, winged nutlets"

Newest Review: ... can grow to over 20m. Too big for you? How about Betula nana? Known as the Arctic Birch, or Dwarf Birch, this one grows to ... more

... a massive two feet (60cm) tall! It is more a shrub than a tree in habit, spreading to about 1.2m across. My recommendations? Betula pendula Purpurea grows to around 10m, and has purple-tinged bark and dark purple leaves. Betula pendula Youngii grows to 8m, and is a beautiful weeping tree, ideal in the middle of a lawn. Now, if you’ve read some of my other tree snippets, you may be wondering by now if I’m going to manage to slip anything alcoholic into this opinion. Need you ask? A rather palata...more

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Bring Back the Birch! (785 words)
by - written on 10/02/01 (Very useful, 519 readings)
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No, this one hasn’t escaped from Speaker’s Corner. This is simply about trees. Birch trees. Graceful trees given less recognition than they deserve. Which is about to change, right? Needless to say, like all our native trees, birch in the wild has declined markedly over the last two centuries. Considered a “weed” among trees by commercial foresters, birch woodland has been felled and cleared to make way for coniferous timber crops. Yet it is still one our most abundant trees, relatively speaking. But even so, many remaining birch woods are dying through lack of regeneration. The birch is short-lived by tree standards, and the ... Read the complete review