A fairly fast-growing tree, river birch can reach a height of 70 feet or more. Native throughout the eastern U.S., it is typically found on the banks of rivers and streams as well as in floodplains.

European white birch (Betula pendula) goes through several stages, from shiny brown bark to white, and, finally, showing dark gray fissures ‘painted’ with white lines of leftover white ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark.

Fast growing, a mature river birch can reach a height of 70 feet. Heritage will grow about 30 inches or more each year in colder climates, and even faster in the south. Trees may be trained with ...

You can think of birch beer as root beer's dad.The name comes from its central ingredient: the bark of the black birch tree, which grows prolifically in the Northeast.

Trees develop their characteristic barks as the trunk circumference grows. The dead outer bark can't grow, and so it gives way. Beech bark (Fagus spp.) is flexible, so it stretches and expands.