BETULACEAE

Betula pendula - European White Birch

Leaves - Alternate, simple, 1 1/4-3" long, apex-acuminate, base acuminate or truncate, double serrate, glabrous.

Buds - Imbricate, curved, pointed, brownish-black

Stem - Glabrous, resinous-glandular, brown

Bark - Whitish, does not peel (exfoliate) to degree of Paper Birch. With age, trunk becomes black
          with relatively small amounts of white bark showing.

Fruit - Small nutlet produced in wide cylindrical catkins.

                 HABIT                                                                   WINTER TEXTURE                                                           FALL COLOR                                                                STRESS

                  FLOWER                                                                                    LEAF                                                                           BARK

               BARK                                                             LEAF

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