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  Birch wood,craftwood and woodworking supply
Yellow(silver or swamp birch) and paper (sometimes referred as white or canoe) birch are the two most common trees in Northern Ontario, although sweet, river and gray birch have some commercial recognition in other parts of Canada and the United States.
Birches are usually the first to establish in cleared land, but start to die once other trees move in and offer shade.
Yellow birch on the other hand, tends to be a larger tree and exhibits a more consistent golden brown colour, with little creamy white sap wood.
www.thewoodbox.com /data/wood/birchinfo.htm   (611 words)

  
  Birch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae.
Birch tar, extracted from birch bark, was used as a lubricant and for medicinal purposes.
Birch twigs were bound in a bundle, also called birch, to be used for birching, a form of corporal punishment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birch   (761 words)

  
 Birch
Birch sap is drunk as a tonic or rendered into birch syrup, vinegar, beer, soft drinks, and other foods.
Birch syrup is however very difficult to make compared to other syrups, making it more expensive than other food syrups.
It is made mainly in Alaska (from Alaska Birch) and Russia (from several species), and more rarely elsewhere.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/birch.html   (675 words)

  
 HON Allergy Glossary, Betulaceae Pollens
Birch pollen is common in Europe from around early-April, but further north and in the mountains is present much later.
Silver birches, known for their allergenic potential, generally refer to either Betula papyrifera (also known as paper, canoe, or white birch) or B.
Birch, alder and hazel all display strong cross-reactions, due to their similarity.
www.hon.ch /Library/Theme/Allergy/Glossary/betula.html   (305 words)

  
 Yellow Birch Swamp in Estabrook Woods
Singularly allied to the fl birch in its sweet checkerberry scent and its form and to the canoe birch in its peeling or fringed and tasselled bark.
The top is brush-like as the fl birch The bark an exquisite fine or delicate gold color - curled off partly from the trunk with vertical clear or smooth spaces as if a plane had been passed up the tree.
Other journal references to the Yellow Birch Swamp can be found at May 12, 1853; June 4 and 10, 1853; Feb, 18, 1855; May 18, 1857; June 2, 1857; Oct. 5, 1857; March 6, 1859; May 5, 1859; and Feb. 28, 1860.
homepage.mac.com /sfe/henry/estabrook/HT-530104_yellow-birches.html   (660 words)

  
 Birch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species.
Betula papyrifera -- white birch (or paperbark birch)
Betula pendula -- Silver birch, is native to Europe and parts of Asia.
www.backyardagora.com /glossary/birch.htm   (129 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Wetland Plants
Fruit is a small (ca 2 x 3 mm.) winged nutlet.
ECOLOGICAL NOTES: Swamp birch, also known as bog birch, is a distinctive shrub of bogs, the edges of conifer swamps and occasionally fens.
The birches readily form hybrids and swamp birch is no exception.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/plants/mnplant/bepu.htm   (146 words)

  
 Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture: Grey Birch
The grey birch, common throughout P.E.I., is a small tree, rarely over 10m in height and a diameter of 20cm.
It is one of the first trees to spring up after a fire, and is found on dry gravelly or sandy soils, however, it sometimes is found on wet soils along the margins of streams and swamps.
Grey birch exists in pure stands but is more commonly mixed with spruce, balsam fir, larch, white birch, and poplar.
www.gov.pe.ca /af/agweb/index.php3?number=75346   (307 words)

  
 swamp birch - Definition of swamp birch by Webster's Online Dictionary
swamp birch - birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark
Synonyms: Betula fontinalis, mountain birch, water birch, Western birch, Western paper birch
Betula, Betula fontinalis, birch, birch tree, genus Betula, mountain birch, water birch, Western birch, Western paper birch
www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/swamp%20birch   (66 words)

  
 Top Stories
Christopher James was charged with three counts of felony assault, and single counts of reckless driving, driving under the influence, operating without a license and obedience to a traffic control device after he was arrested on Birch Swamp Road, where his car because stuck in the mud, police said.
He then continued on Market Street, although his Buick was missing a wheel, and finally stopped in a field on Birch Swamp Road when his car got stuck in the mud.
James fled on foot, but was found shortly after by police who discovered him under a flatbed trailer about 100 yards from the car.
www.eastbayri.com /story/361356574707359.php   (388 words)

  
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 forestphotos
A spruce-pine swamp / undrained peatlands / genuine forested type
A fl-alder swamp / undrained peatlands / mixed types
Streams and waterways in forest under protection and care
www.helsinki.fi /~korpela/forestphotos.html   (230 words)

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