Different birch tree species can be distinguished by those protective bracts. Gray and paper birch seeds are protected by bracts that look, to me, like soaring birds – two outstretched wings, a ...

Betula pubescens, commonly known as: downy birch, moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch. Seed germinated super fast that was nice. I never really know when to end these time ...

Q. I have a clump birch that was planted in 1991. It has grown beautifully until this year. Long "seed worms" developed on two trunks, then shriveled up and now there are dead leaves on some of ...

Luckily, once you know what these problems are, you can more easily help your river birch tree continue to grow. When John Snow spoke exclusively with House Digest, he explained that it may be ...

FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks area is experiencing its annual melt-off this month, but the typical sight of dirty snow has been accentuated with a distinctive shade of rusty brown.

Because the small, upright cones of the yellow birch tree disintegrate slowly, its seeds provide a sustained food source for wetland birds like Pileated Woodpeckers, Fox Sparrows, Black-capped ...

Every winter I expect to lose more birches to windthrow than any other tree because gray and white birches (Betula populifol, B. papyrifera) are for the most part a short – lived pioneer species ...