In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Paper Birch. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

This species, also known as paper birch, resembles a white paper-like bark ... American basswood is a large deciduous tree with heart-shaped and toothed leaves that grow to three to six inches in ...

In North America, the white-barked beauty is the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.This is the tree whose bark can be cut away in generous sheets. This is handy for building birch canoes, but not so ...

Different birch tree species can be distinguished by those protective bracts. Gray and paper birch seeds are protected by bracts that look, to me, like soaring birds – two outstretched wings, a ...

These will then lay reddish-brown eggs on the twigs of trees and the cycle will start over next spring. So, my prediction is that we are not going to have the greatest looking birch trees this summer.

Birch trees also have a special place in Canadian’s hearts because they are truly Canadian. ... In Ontario the preferred name is Paper Birch, ... namely Birch Borer and Birch Leaf Minor.

My birch tree has developed a yellowish color to the leaves. It also has been dropping a lot of brown leaves over the last couple of weeks. Are these two problems connected? What is wrong, and what… ...