Birch
By Ann MacDonald
Birch (Betula) - Trees of cold and Arctic regions, often forming vast forests.
Birch Tree
A leafy tree, known from ancient times as the medicinal plant used in treating many diseases, the birch tree is also known as the "tree of life".
Birch for winter interest
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Birch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula ( /ˈbÉ›tjÊŠlÉ™/ Bé-tu-la),[1] in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30-60 known taxa.
BIRCH--CLUMPS
Birches are usually clumped in multiples of three, four or five for appearance sake. Clumping usually produces a tree with a crown or top growth equal to a single tree with three smaller trunks.
Birch
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common name for some members of the Betulaceae, a family of deciduous trees or shrubs bearing male and female flowers on separate plants, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere.
River Birch, Red Birch
Fast-growing Birch trees are attractive year-round. Their light green foliage turns yellow in fall. Losing their leaves for winter shows off their colorful, peeling bark, thin graceful branches, and hanging cone-like fruit.
Paper birch
Betula papyrifera
A small to medium-sized tree, often with many stems, up to 30 metres tall. In forests, it has a slender trunk that often curves before extending to the narrow, oval-shaped crown.
River Birch
Prepared by Debbie Shaughnessy, HGIC Information Specialist, and Bob Polomski, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Clemson University. (New 05/99. Images added 11/06.)
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Paper Birch
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Birch is a group of about forty trees and shrubs of North America, Europe, and Northern Asia.
Birches have a reputation for short life in gardens, a scant 15 to 25 years, & Young's weeping birch can be more delicate than average.
Birches are much loved for bonsai because of their elegant beauty, but they do not take easily to pot culture. Their short lives are also seen as a disadvantage; however, some birches will live as long as 300 years.
The Birch family includes deciduous trees and shrubs with simple, toothed, alternate leaves, with neatly pinnate veins. Male and female catkins form separately on the same bush (monoecious).
This birch has a particularly fine bark. When mature it makes an elegant, quite solid foliaged, tree that glistens in the sunlight. The bark is a clear white and peels, revealing fresh, orange bark beneath.
River Birch, grown mostly for the beauty of its peeling, satiny bark and salmon pink trunk, is a Texas Native. The Birch's leaves are deltoid in shape and will turn yellow in the fall before dropping.
Paper Birch is a pioneer species, quickly recolonizing disturbed land. However it is easily overtaken by other species that reproduce better in shade.
Sweet Birch
(Betula lenta L.)
LEAVES: Alternate, simple, about 3½" long, unevenly sawtoothed, dull green above, yellow-green beneath with some white hairs where the veins join the midrib. The leaf base is usually heart-shaped.
River birch is more like a pine than an oak and usually gets hammered pretty hard when ice accumulates.
Silver Birch
Betula pendula
West Himalayan birch
Betula utilis var jacquemontii ...
( Birchwood Parky's Gold Hosta )
Hardy, deciduous perennials for shaded gardens with large, bold leaves often marked with contrasting colors.
This is not the birch that is utilized for cabinetry because the wood is too soft and too small to be of Commercial use. Other birches such as the Black Birchhave useful medicinal properties.
Young's Weeping Birch Betula pendula 'Youngii' Plant habit, summer Main Page Next Info ...
Young's Weeping Birch
A small weeping tree that eventually becomes a dome-shaped or mushroom-headed tree as wide as it is tall.
Betula jacquemontii. HIMALYAN BIRCH. Himalayas
BETULACEAE (Birch family) ...
Can be difficult from cuttings, especially Betula alleghaniensis, yellow birch: use rooting hormone and/or willow tea. Some species suitable for side-veneer grafting. Grow in light shade, moist and fertile conditions. Used as bonsai. Zone 2-8 ...
'Birch Hybrid' dwarf bellflower (Campanula 'Birch Hybrid')
Height: 10 to 15 cm
Spread: 20 to 30 cm ...
bog birch Betulaceae Betula nana L. symbol: BENA
Leaf: Alternate, simple, pinnately-veined, broadly obovate to nearly round, 1/2 to 1 inch long, often wider than long; rounded large teeth, thickened, ...
GRAY BIRCH
Betula populifolia
General Notes
Poor tolerance of drought. SelecTree lists no cultivars of populifolia.
Birches are among the most graceful of all garden trees and the NE AsianBetula ermanii is one of the finest.
birch leaf miner is very disfiguring to the foliage and major limitation. It does not kill the plant however
tends to be short lived
very prone to being bent over or snapped off by ice storms of heavy snows
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BIRCH
Birch (genus Betula, many species) are broad-leafed, deciduous trees and shrubs with paper-like bark.
BLADDER
A bladder is a small, air filled sac. Some plants, like bladderwort (a seaweed), have air bladders.
'Birchwood Parky's Gold' (Hosta nakaiana)
'Chartreuse Wiggles' (Hosta sieboldii)
'Fried Bananas' (Hosta plantaginea)
'Gold Scepter' (Hosta nakaiana)
longipes 'Golden Dwarf' (species)
'Sweet Tater Pie' (Hosta yingeri, nakaiana) ...
River Birch is found in moist soils often within a few feet of year-round streams. It can grow to 35 feet tall but usually is shorter in thicket clumps such as the one this three inch diameter trunk is part of.
River Birch (Betula nigra)
London Planetree (Platanus x acerifolia)
American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) -variable trait, depends on cultivar
Chinese Elm (Ulmus parvifolia) ...
River birch's multiple trunks, pleasing form and compact stature make it a good choice for smaller yards and tight spaces.
3 (7)m, Birchleaf Snowball is a tall and broad, deciduous, woody shrub with birch-like, dark green leaves, and dense, elongated, terminal, pendulous clusters of creamy white flowers, followed by showy, bright scarlet berries in autumn and winter.
Family: Birch (Betulaceae)
Flowering: April-May
Field Marks: This species differs from similar-appearing species by its scaly bark and inflated fruits.
Habitat: Moist or dry soils in woods, rocky slopes, hammocks, steep ravines.
* 17. White Birch/ Bw / Betula papyrifera leaf
5-13 cm long, 2-5 cm wide.
deltoide to ovate.
margin doubly serrate.
lacking teeth on blade adjacent to the petiole.
Black birch ( Betula nigra ) Pale green foliage; reddish brown trunk with white base, bark flaking off in sheets. Hornbeam ( Carpinus laxiflora ) Very luxuriant foliage produced in spring.
1. 'Whitespire' birch (zones 4-9); 2. 'Goldflame' spiraea (3-8); 3. Sargent juniper (3-9); 4. 'Summer Snowflake' viburnum (4-7); 5. 'Seagreen' juniper (3-9); 6. 'Emerald'n Gold' winter creeper(5-8); 7. Compact peegee hydrangea(3-8) ...
Birches are usually produced and sold in clump form (also known as multitrunked or multistemmed form), rather than tree form (also known as singletrunked form), to further showcase their best ornamental feature, namely their showy bark.
Bursera simaruba (Gumbo-Limbo, West Indian Birch, Tourist Tree, Family: Burseraceae)
Butea monosperma, Butea frondosa, Erythrina monosperma (Flame of the Forest, Dhak, Palas, Bastard Teak, Parrot Tree, Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
European white birch Betula pendula
European yellow iris, yellow flag, water flag Iris pseudacorus
everlasting pea Lathyrus latifolius
false baby's breath; wild madder, white bedstraw Galium mollugo
false banyan, council tree Ficus altissima ...
Shepherd's Cress, Shepherd's Needle, Shepherd's Purse, Shetland Pondweed, Shining Cranesbill, Shining Pondweed, Shore Dock, Shoreweed, Short-fruited Willowherb, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Shrubby Seablite, Sibbaldia, Sickle Hare's-ear, Silver Birch, ...
The pale salmon and buff peeled bark of the river birch 'Heritage' (Betula nigra)
offers year round beauty and can be accented in the landscape by underplanting
it with the shade tolerant Ajuga 'Bronze Beauty' and the bronze edged leaves of ...
The Silver Birch. Damp soil is fine, but not flooded.
Crataegus - laevigata in particular.
Liquidambar - happy in damp or wet conditions.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Paulownia. Will do well in damp soil especially if pollarded back each year.
She started by planting birches (Betula jacquemontii), dogwoods, a saucer magnolia, and a tapestry of shrubs, since they would cover the slope and supplant weeds (and take the longest to fill in).
The Okanagan-Colville Indians made a decoction of branches of birch-leaved spiraea and used it for menstrual pains or heavy or prolonged menstruation. They also used a tea of branches taken for poor kidneys, ruptures, colds and abdominal pains.
Beeches (Fagus), birches (Betula), cherry (Prunus), black or sour gum (Nyssa), hickory (Carya), hornbeam (Carpinus), maple (Acer) and sassafras.
annosus (on birches), P. squamosus and other species have apparently a similar composition and similar properties. P. anthelminticus (Chu-tau of the Chinese) is used as a worm-dispeller. P. hirsutus, or 'Pugak,' and P. tinctorius yield dye-stuffs.
These include serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea), redbud (Cercis canadensis), flowering dogwood (Cornus florida), river birch (Betula nigra), fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus), American holly (Ilex opaca), ...
Some of the common varieties include the bay boletus, the birch boletus and the red-cracked boletus.
It is said that the leaves of a Sunflower, for example, transpire as much water on a hot day as a person loses, and a birch tree can suck up hundreds of gallons of water on a summer's day, to use as a cooling device.
Habitat: Rich damp woods often near water or in bogs, among Beech, Birch, Maple and often near Hemlock.
All chlorophyll plants require light, but in very different degrees, as exemplified even in the United Kingdom by the shade-bearing beech and yew contrasted with the light-demanding larch and birch; and as with temperature so with light, ...
(sinónimo), Betula pubescens (similar), Betulaceae (familia), Bídalo (gallego y/o portugués), Bidoeiro (gallego y/o portugués), Bidouro (gallego y/o portugués), Bidueiro (gallego y/o portugués), Bieso (castellano), Biezo (castellano), Birch (inglés), ...
 See also: Green, May, Ash, Pink, Beech
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