Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is the river birch, ...

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Walking along the banks of a river, through a young forest, or along a city street, there is a tree that stands out from the rest. At first glance it might appear to be just another paper birch, but ...

A tree-shaded lawn is an oasis in the summertime simply because it provides cover from the sun's rays, but the benefits of trees extend beyond shade. Trees reduce greenhouse gases, filter air ...

If advocates of the winter garden were to pick a spokestree to represent the ideals of their movement, it would have to be a birch. They might have to pick two: white-barked birches and the bronze, ...

What: Heritage birch — also called white bark river birch, or betula nigra Cully Heritage — was selected for its incredible peeling bark. The bark has more white, cream and pale salmon tones than the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A phytosociological and edaphic study was made of three stands of Betula nigra L. and four communities that lacked this species in the ...

The distribution of Betula nigra, the river birch, was determined for the United States by field observations over 13 years, personal communications from field botanists, data from herbarium specimens ...

Want to plant a tremendous tree? Look no further than the river birch, Betula nigra. Indigenous to the eastern United States, the river birch is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps. Native ...

When we moved here, there was a single Oldfield birch tree canted at an improbable angle by the driveway. Ash-colored and striated with charcoal, it glowed in the evening light like a slim Leaning ...