The white birch of Europe is the silver birch, Betula pendula, named for the way its branches hang down. You will find self-seeded thickets of it from Bavaria to Scotland and beyond.

By Ann Beebe family@post-journal.com The top of my dead white birch tree toppled over. The cause was rotting. Folks also call this tree “canoe birch” and “silver birch.” The official name is “paper ...

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.

One of my white-birch-tree days I shall always remember as having been curiously influenced by a present and past of world-thought which seemed to infest it. It was in that part of the forest of ...

Got a birch tree that doesn’t look too healthy after our long, dry summer? You aren’t alone. Both European white birch and river birch are popular landscape trees in the Inland Northwest.

Paper birch certainly lends itself to comparisons with paper; the bark is smooth and white and flammable. This whiteness, it turns out, is key to the ability of the birch to survive extreme cold.

Boxlapse. Growing a BIRCH TREE from seed Time-lapse. Posted: April 7, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025. Betula pubescens, commonly known as: downy birch, moor birch, white birch, European white ...

A. The tree in question is most likely Betula pendula 'Youngii,' a weeping type of what is known as European White Birch. 'Youngii' is one of perhaps 15 cultivars of the species.

My dad and I left the Polish East Side for the University District in the summer of 1968. He almost immediately planted a white birch sapling in the front yard.

On May 13, 1923, Mother’s Day, a white birch tree was planted in honor of mothers on the shore of Antietam Lake.About 1,000 people showed up for the event, considered the first of its kind in ...