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Paper Birch - Photo no rights reserved, uploaded by Dezene Huber CC
Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) Info
Betula papyrifera (paper birch, also known as white birch and canoe birch) is a short lived species of birch native to northern North America. Paper birch is named due to the thin white bark which often peels in paper like layers from the trunk. Paper birch is often one of the first species to colonize a burned area within the northern latitudes and an important species for moose browse. The wood is often used for pulpwood... (Wikipedia)
Downy Birch - Photo (c) Denis Davydov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Denis Davydov CC
Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) Info
Betula pubescens (syn. Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native and abundant throughout northern Europe and northern Asia, growing farther north than any other broadleaf tree. It is closely related to, and often confused with, the silver birch (B. pendula), but grows in wetter places with heavier soils and poorer drainag (Wikipedia)
Heartleaf Paper Birch - Photo no rights reserved, uploaded by Reuven Martin CC
Heartleaf Paper Birch (Betula cordifolia) Info
Betula cordifolia (mountain paper birch, also known as mountain white birch or eastern paper birch) is a birch species native to Eastern Canada and the North Eastern United States. Until recently it was considered a variety of Betula papyrifera (paper birch), with which it shares many characteristics, and it was classified as B. papyrifera var. cordifolia (Regel) Fern. (Wikipedia)
Alaska Paper Birch - Photo (c) jdmason, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) CC
Alaska Paper Birch (Betula neoalaskana) Info
Betula neoalaskana (syn. B. resinifera) or Alaska Birch, also known as Alaska Paper Birch or Resin Birch, is a species of birch native to Alaska and northern Canada. Its range covers most of interior Alaska, and extends from the southern Brooks Range to the Chugach Range in Alaska, including the Turnagain Arm and northern half of the Kenai Peninsula, easterward from Norton Sound into western Ontario, and north to Northwest Territories and southern Nunavut (Wikipedia)