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 ...

Birch seeds are a major food of redpolls in some areas. — Crabapple (Malus fuscus). The wide-open flowers offer nectar and pollen to any visiting insect. The small, ...

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 ...