Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...

When it comes to shade trees, there is an almost limitless number of options for your yard. To add extra interest in cooler climates, this is a stunning option.

Bright and white against blue skies, paper birch trees (Betula papyrifera) liven up the winter landscape, especially when contrasted against green conifers, which have made them darlings of seasonal ...

At first glance, the birch bolete (Leccinum scabrum), also known as the brown birch bolete, looks like an ordinary woodland mushroom. Found in association with birch trees across Europe and North ...

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.

In this edition of ID That Tree, we’re going to introduce you to a native Indiana species, and that’s grey birch. It can be found in the northern part of Indiana near Lake Michigan. It can be defined ...

Even though I am sure I have seen these all my life, I don’t remember ever noticing the actual seeds of birch trees until relatively recently. This is one of those things that is so easy to overlook, ...

With the help of trees, microplastic-polluted soils could be remediated. For the first time, researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have shown that birch ...

Season will be less vibrant with trees such as birches, which usually offer a striking burst of yellow leaves, already bare Among a canvas of copper, red and purple autumn leaves on display at Wisley ...