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American white birch: Betula papyrifera: 1947 [37] New Jersey: Northern red oak: Quercus rubra: 1950 [38] New Mexico: Piñon pine: Pinus edulis: 1949 [39] New York: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1956 [40] North Carolina: Pine: Pinus: 1963 [41] North Dakota: American elm: Ulmus americana: 1947 [42] Northern Mariana Islands: Flame tree: Delonix ...
The specific epithet honors Frank Murray, the person who discovered the Michigan population of the species. [8] Betula murrayana is an evolutionarily recent species that arose through hybridization between Betula alleghaniensis and another hybrid, Betula × purpusii (a hybrid of B. alleghaniensis and Betula pumila ). [ 8 ]
Betula papyrifera (paper birch, [5] also known as (American) white birch [5] and canoe birch [5]) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America. Paper birch is named after the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper -like layers from the trunk.
Betula cordifolia is a deciduous tree that reaches heights of about 60 feet or 25 m and a trunk diameter of about 30 inches or about 75 cm. [3] Mature bark is white or bronze-white, peeling in thin layers.
Fomitopsis betulina (previously Piptoporus betulinus), commonly known as the birch polypore, birch bracket, or razor strop, is a common bracket fungus and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on birch trees. The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and these fruit bodies can last for more than a year.
Betula pubescens is known as downy birch, with other common names including moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch. [3] It is a deciduous tree growing to 10 to 20 m (33 to 66 ft) tall (rarely to 27 m), with a slender crown and a trunk up to 70 cm (28 in) (exceptionally 1 m) in diameter, with smooth but dull grey-white bark ...
Betula pendula, commonly known as silver birch, warty birch, European white birch, [2] or East Asian white birch, [3] is a species of tree in the family Betulaceae, native to Europe and parts of Asia, though in southern Europe, it is only found at higher altitudes. Its range extends into Siberia, China, and southwest Asia in the mountains of ...
Betula minor, the dwarf white birch, is a species of birch which can be found in Eastern Canada and in such US states as Maine, New Hampshire, and New York. [2]