Yellow Birch boasts distinctive ... is the luminous quality of the bark on branches and young stems, presenting a silvery-gray or yellowish-brown sheen in loose, horizontal layers akin to ribbons. As ...

Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its distinctive white bark. The scientific name Betula papyrifera ...

One such species is the river birch, Betula nigra. The bark of this tree exfoliates — or peels away in layers — to reveal shades of cinnamon, cream, salmon and pink. Light, wispy branching ...