birch: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Betula

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White birch tree (Betula alba) with slender white trunks and sparse branches stands in a grassy field under a partly cloudy sky.

White-barked paper birch trees stand among colorful autumn foliage of sugar maples in a forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Ladakh, India: birch trees in the Himalayas

Alaska: Boreal forest

Figure 10: Air pollution injury to vegetation.

Grove of paper birch trees with white bark and yellow autumn leaves, with green foliage and undergrowth visible among the trunks.

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