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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 ...
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.
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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.
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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 papyrifera: paper birch; canoe birch; American white birch Betulaceae (birch family) 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 ...
NVC community W2 (Salix cinerea - Betula pubescens - Phragmites australis woodland) is one of the woodland communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of seven woodland communities in the NVC classed as "wet woodlands". This is a fairly locally distributed community. There are two subcommunities.