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Ray section of birch wood. Birch wood is a type of wood of the birch. Birch wood is pale yellow-brown wood having a close, straight grain and uniform texture that finishes to a smooth surface. Sometimes it is dyed to imitate mahogany. This type of wood is used for among others firewood, turnery, furniture, cabinetry, tools handles, hoops ...
The wood of black birch is heavy at 47 pounds per cubic foot and is used for furniture, millwork, and cabinets. It is similar to yellow birch wood and often not distinguished from it in the lumber trade. [6] The sap flows about a month later than maple sap, and much faster. The trees can be tapped in a similar fashion, but must be gathered ...
NCSU Inside Wood project; Reproduction of The American Woods: exhibited by actual specimens and with copious explanatory text by Romeyn B. Hough; US Forest Products Laboratory, "Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Wood" from the Wood Handbook Archived 2021-01-18 at the Wayback Machine PDF 916K; International Wood ...
Betula schmidtii, the iron birch or Schmidt's birch, is a species of flowering plant in the family Betulaceae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to Manchuria, Korea, Primorsky Krai of the Russian Far East, and Japan. [ 1 ]
A trunk of a birch, with part of bark cut out A Russian birch bark letter from the 14th century Birchbark shoes. Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. For all practical purposes, birch bark's main layers are the outer dense layer, white on the outside, and the inner porous ...
A birch bark inscription excavated from Novgorod, circa 1240–1260. Wood pulp made from birch gives relatively long and slender fibres for a hardwood. The thin walls cause the fibre to collapse upon drying, giving a paper with low bulk and low opacity. The birch fibres are, however, easily fibrillated and give about 75% of the tensile strength ...
The Birch Wood (Polish: Brzezina), a 1970 Polish dramatic film; Birch Wood (painting), a painting by Christian Rohlfs (1849–1938) at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; see List of artists in the Web Gallery of Art (L–Z) "Birch Woods" (song), a tune from the 2022 film The Northman off the soundtrack The Northman
Betula nigra - River birch or black birch; Betula potaninii - Potanin's birch; Tetraploid (4n = 56). Betula albosinensis - Chinese red birch Betula albosinensis var. septentrionalis - North Chinese red birch; Betula ermanii - Erman's birch; Betula jacquemontii (B. utilis subsp. jacquemontii) - White-barked Himalayan birch; Betula utilis ...