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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.
sweet birch Betulaceae Betula lenta L. symbol: BELE
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Betula lenta
Sweet Birch
Betulaceae
Located on the left side of Buckley Hall.
Sweet Birch [English]: Betula lenta
Sweet Birch [English]: Betula lenta lenta
Sweet Black-Eyed Susan [English]: Rudbeckia subtomentosa
Sweet Black-eyed Susan [English]: Rudbeckia subtomentosa 'Henry Eilers' ...
Betula lenta: black birch, sweet birch, cherry birch - In nature, grows in moist, cool woods east of Ohio, further south than most birches, ranging from Ontario to Alabama. Its bark is gray-black or reddish-brown.
Betula lenta, Sweet Birch
Chamaecyparis thyoides, Atlantic White Cypress or Atlantic Whitecedar
Cornus florida, Flowering Dogwood
Diospyros spp., Persimmon
Fagus grandifolia, American Beech
Ilex opaca, American Holly ...
America; the Cherry or Sweet Birch (B. lenta), which is sometimes 80 feet high and also of northern distribution (Canada, Newfoundland); the Yellow Birch (B. lutea), sometimes 100 feet high; the Western Birch (B. occidentalis), ...
 See also: Birch, Green, May, Yellow Birch, Wintergreen
  
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