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Betula pubescens is known as downy birch, with other common names including moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch. [3] It is a deciduous tree growing to 10 to 20 m (33 to 66 ft) tall (rarely to 27 m), with a slender crown and a trunk up to 70 cm (28 in) (exceptionally 1 m) in diameter, with smooth but dull grey-white bark ...
Downy birch (Betula pubescens) Eight constant species are found in the field and ground layers of this community: Wavy hair grass (Deschampsia flexuosa) Greater fork-moss (Dicranum majus) Glittering wood-moss (Hylocomium splendens) Waved silk-moss (Plagiothecium undulatum) Red-stemmed feather-moss (Pleurozium schreberi)
Betula platyphylla (Betula pendula var. platyphylla) - Siberian silver birch; Betula populifolia - Gray birch; Betula szechuanica (Betula pendula var. szechuanica) - Sichuan birch; Tetraploid (4n = 56). Betula celtiberica - Iberian white birch; Betula pubescens - White birch, European white birch or downy birch Betula pubescens subsp. tortuosa ...
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula (/ ˈ b ɛ tj ʊ l ə /), [2] in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.It is closely related to the beech-oak family Fagaceae.
Betula pendula: silver birch Betulaceae (birch family) Betula platyphylla: Siberian silver birch Betulaceae (birch family) Betula populifolia: gray birch Betulaceae (birch family) Betula pubescens: downy birch Betulaceae (birch family) Betula pumila: swamp birch Betulaceae (birch family) Betula szechuanica: Sichuan birch Betulaceae (birch ...
W4 Betula pubescens-Molinia caerulea woodland is widely distributed, but rarely extensive, throughout the lowlands and the upland fringes of Britain. It occurs on moist, peaty, rather acidic soils, particularly on or around peat bogs that are drying out, usually as a result of drainage, although it can also be found on acidic mineral soils in suitable locations.
W16 Quercus spp. - Betula spp. - Deschampsia flexuosa woodland; W17 Quercus petraea - Betula pubescens - Dicranum majus woodland; W18 Pinus sylvestris - Hylocomium splendens woodland; W19 Juniperus communis ssp. communis - Oxalis acetosella woodland; W20 Salix lapponum - Luzula sylvatica scrub; W21 Crataegus monogyna - Hedera helix scrub
NVC community W11 (Quercus petraea - Betula pubescens - Oxalis acetosella woodland) is one of the woodland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of the six communities falling in the "mixed deciduous and oak/birch woodlands" group. This is a widespread upland community of northern and western Britain.