Other common names:
Canoe Birch, Paper Birch French names:
Bouleau à papier Family: Birch Family (Betulaceae) Group: Birches Distinctive features: Tree Similar species: • European White Birch (Betula pendula) - Branches are "weeping" (hanging down. • Gray Birch (Betula populifolia) - A small tree; only in extreme eastern Ontario. Leaves: Alternate, Simple, Toothed Bark:
Papery, white and peeling laterally. Habitat: Forests Books: Trees in Canada: 284 Native/Non-native:
Native Photographs:
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White Birch is best known for its peeling white bark.
A fragment of White Birch bark.
White Birch trunk.
The bark of younger trees can be a little bit yellowish. It can be distinguished from Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis) by the larger peeling sheets.
A nice set of three White Birch trunks.
Closeup of the bark.
White Birch flowers, in mid-May.
Flower buds in early April.
White Birch leaf buds.
Typical White Birch leaf.
A few small White Birch trees in winter.
Shape and form of a young White Birch tree.
The white bark of White Birch does not rot very quickly. You will often find just the bark remaining on a rotted fallen tree trunk.
Sapsucker holes in White Birch bark.
White Birch sap flowing out of a wound and freezing in the winter cold.
PLEASE NOTE: A coloured Province or State means this species occurs somewhere in that Province/State.
The entire Province/State is coloured, regardless of where in that Province/State it occurs.
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