A slender, elegant, short-lived species of birch (Betula pendula) reaching 1518 m/5060 ft, with distinctive silvery-white bark. Native to Europe, usually in colder regions, it is often planted for ornament. (Family: Betulaceae.)
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Silver Birch in winter |
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Betula pendula Roth. pubescens, the other common European birch) in having hairless, warty shoots (hairy, without warts in Downy Birch), and whiter bark often with scattered black fissures (greyer, less fissured, in Downy Birch). Land of the Silver Birch is a traditional Canadian folk song, though the birch referred to is actually a different species, Paper Birch Betula papyrifera. |
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