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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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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. The genus Betula contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened Species.
Betula pubescens 'Pendula', or Weeping Downy Birch, is a weeping tree and a cultivar of Betula pubescens, the Downy Birch. It was first described by Schelle in 1903. [ 1 ] No trees are known to survive of this cultivar .
Betula nigra - River birch or black birch; Betula potaninii - Potanin's birch; Tetraploid (4n = 56). Betula albosinensis - Chinese red birch Betula albosinensis var. septentrionalis - North Chinese red birch; Betula ermanii - Erman's birch; Betula jacquemontii (B. utilis subsp. jacquemontii) - White-barked Himalayan birch; Betula utilis ...
NVC community W17 (Quercus petraea - Betula pubescens - Dicranum majus 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.
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. For all practical purposes, birch bark's main layers are the outer dense layer, white on the outside, and the inner porous layer . For vast majority of crafts, the outer bark is used. In many languages it has a separate name.