Birch Trees

White birch is found as widely scattered individual trees and in the more readily identified multistemmed birch clumps. On large trees the smooth creamy white bark with conspicuous horizontal markings called lenticels and a crown of many ascending branches carrying dull green leaves provide positive identification.This tree is also called Paper Birch because on young trees the outer bark peels off in thin papery layers, and Canoe Birch because Indians used the bark to build their canoes

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