Yellow Birch - Revision history

Raffi at 02:19, 9 February 2010

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Murali.lalitha at 15:57, 7 February 2010

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Raffi at 09:33, 5 April 2007

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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Yellow Birch
| status = {{StatusSecure}}
| image = Betula alleghaniensis.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Yellow Birch foliage
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fagales]]
| familia = [[Betulaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Birch|Betula]]''
| subgenus = ''[[Betula classification#Subgenus Betulenta - Wintergreen oil birches|Betulenta]]''
| species = '''''B. alleghaniensis'''''
| binomial = ''Betula alleghaniensis''
| binomial_authority = Britt.
}}

'''Yellow Birch''' (''Betula alleghaniensis'', synomym ''B. lutea''), is a species of [[birch]] native to [[Eastern United States|eastern]] [[North America]], from [[Nova Scotia]], [[New Brunswick]], and southern [[Québec]] west to [[Minnesota]], and south in the [[Appalachian Mountains]] to northern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].

[[Image:Yellow_birch_bark.jpg|left|thumb|Yellow Birch bark]]
It is a medium-sized [[deciduous]] [[tree]] reaching 20 m tall (exceptionally to 30 m) with a trunk up to 80 cm diameter. The [[bark]] is smooth, yellow-bronze, flaking in fine horizontal strips, and often with small black marks and scars. The twigs, when scraped, have a slight scent of [[methyl salicylate|oil of wintergreen]], though not as strongly so as the related [[Sweet Birch]]. The [[leaf|leaves]] are alternate, ovate, 6-12 cm long and 4-9 cm broad, with a finely serrated margin. The [[flower]]s are wind-pollinated [[catkin]]s 3-6 cm long, the male catkins pendulous, the female catkins erect. The [[fruit]], mature in fall, is composed of numerous tiny winged [[seed]]s packed between the catkin bracts.

Yellow Birch is the [[Provincial tree emblems of Canada|provincial tree]] of [[Québec]], where it is commonly called ''merisier'', a name which in France is used for the [[wild cherry]].

The name "yellow birch" reflects the color of the tree's bark.

The wood of the yellow birch is extensively used for flooring, cabinetry and toothpicks. Most wood sold as ''birch'' in North America is from this tree.

==External links==
*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500246 Flora of North America: Profile and map: ''B. alleghaniensis'']
*[http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=BEAL2 NCRS: USDA Plants Profile and map: ''B. alleghaniensis'']
*[http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/frame/beal2.htm ''Betula alleghaniensis'' images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu]

{{Commons|Betula allegheniensis}}

[[Category:Betulaceae]]
[[Category:Trees of Northeastern United States|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Southeastern Canada|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Quebec|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Newfoundland and Labrador|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Appalachia U.S.|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Illinois|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Indiana|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Iowa|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Michigan|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Minnesota|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Trees of Wisconsin|Birch, Yellow]]
[[Category:Provincial symbols of Quebec]]

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 {{Inc|
-Betula lutea, Michx. (B. excelsa, Pursh, not Ait.). Yellow Birch. Fig. 547. Tree, sometimes 100 ft.: bark silvery gray or light orange, on old trunks reddish brown; young bark aromatic, but somewhat bitter: branchlets usually rounded at the base, acuminate, sharply and doubly serrate, usually hairy along the veins beneath : cones like the last, but thicker; scales nearly ⅓in. long, lobed to the middle, pubescent outside. From Newfoundland west to Minn., south along the Alleghanies to the high peaks of N. C. and Tenn. S.S. 9:449. Em. 235. H.T. 126, 127.—One of the most valuable forest trees in the northern states, much resembling the former in habit. Var. persicifolia, Dipp., has larger and longer Lvs., often ovate-lanceolate.
+Betula lutea, Michx. (B. excelsa, Pursh, not Ait.). Yellow Birch. Fig. 547. Tree, sometimes 100 ft.: bark silvery gray or light orange, on old trunks reddish brown; young bark aromatic, but somewhat bitter: branchlets usually rounded at the base, acuminate, sharply and doubly serrate, usually hairy along the veins beneath : cones like the last, but thicker; scales nearly ⅓in. long, lobed to the middle, pubescent outside. From Newfoundland west to Minn., south along the Alleghanies to the high peaks of N. C. and Tenn.—One of the most valuable forest trees in the northern states, much resembling the former in habit. Var. persicifolia, Dipp., has larger and longer Lvs., often ovate-lanceolate.
 }}
-{{Taxobox
+==Cultivation==
-| color = lightgreen
-| name = Yellow Birch
-| status = {{StatusSecure}}
+===Propagation===
-| image = Betula alleghaniensis.jpg
-| image_width = 240px
-| image_caption = Yellow Birch foliage
+===Pests and diseases===
-| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
-'''Yellow Birch''' (''Betula alleghaniensis'', synomym ''B. lutea''), is a species of [[birch]] native to [[Eastern United States|eastern]] [[North America]], from [[Nova Scotia]], [[New Brunswick]], and southern [[Québec]] west to [[Minnesota]], and south in the [[Appalachian Mountains]] to northern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
+==Varieties==
-Yellow Birch is the [[Provincial tree emblems of Canada|provincial tree]] of [[Québec]], where it is commonly called ''merisier'', a name which in France is used for the [[wild cherry]].
+==Gallery==
-The name &quot;yellow birch&quot; reflects the color of the tree's bark.
+<gallery perrow=5>
-The wood of the yellow birch is extensively used for flooring, cabinetry and toothpicks. Most wood sold as ''birch'' in North America is from this tree.
+==References==
 ==External links==
-*[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=233500246 Flora of North America: Profile and map: ''B. alleghaniensis'']
+*{{wplink}}
-[[Category:Betulaceae]]
+{{stub}}
-[[Category:Trees of Northeastern United States|Birch, Yellow]]
+__NOTOC__

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 {{Inc|
 Betula lutea, Michx. (B. excelsa, Pursh, not Ait.). Yellow Birch. Fig. 547. Tree, sometimes 100 ft.: bark silvery gray or light orange, on old trunks reddish brown; young bark aromatic, but somewhat bitter: branchlets usually rounded at the base, acuminate, sharply and doubly serrate, usually hairy along the veins beneath : cones like the last, but thicker; scales nearly ⅓in. long, lobed to the middle, pubescent outside. From Newfoundland west to Minn., south along the Alleghanies to the high peaks of N. C. and Tenn. S.S. 9:449. Em. 235. H.T. 126, 127.—One of the most valuable forest trees in the northern states, much resembling the former in habit. Var. persicifolia, Dipp., has larger and longer Lvs., often ovate-lanceolate.
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 Yellow Birch is the [[Provincial tree emblems of Canada|provincial tree]] of [[Québec]], where it is commonly called ''merisier'', a name which in France is used for the [[wild cherry]].
-The name "yellow birch" reflects the color of the tree's bark.
+The name &quot;yellow birch&quot; reflects the color of the tree's bark.
 The wood of the yellow birch is extensively used for flooring, cabinetry and toothpicks. Most wood sold as ''birch'' in North America is from this tree.

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		+	Betula lutea, Michx. (B. excelsa, Pursh, not Ait.). Yellow Birch. Fig. 547. Tree, sometimes 100 ft.: bark silvery gray or light orange, on old trunks reddish brown; young bark aromatic, but somewhat bitter: branchlets usually rounded at the base, acuminate, sharply and doubly serrate, usually hairy along the veins beneath : cones like the last, but thicker; scales nearly ⅓in. long, lobed to the middle, pubescent outside. From Newfoundland west to Minn., south along the Alleghanies to the high peaks of N. C. and Tenn. S.S. 9:449. Em. 235. H.T. 126, 127.—One of the most valuable forest trees in the northern states, much resembling the former in habit. Var. persicifolia, Dipp., has larger and longer Lvs., often ovate-lanceolate.
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