River Birch - 01

River Birch - 01

River Birch; also occasionally called Water Birch, is a species of birch native to the eastern United States from New Hampshire west to southern Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and east Texas. It is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps. It is a deciduous tree growing to 25 m (80 ft), rarely to 30 m (100 ft), high with a trunk up to 50 cm (2 ft), rarely 150 cm (5 ft), diameter, often with multiple trunks. The bark is variable, usually dark gray-brown to pinkish-brown and scaly, but in some individuals, smooth and creamy pinkish-white, exfoliating in curly papery sheets. The twigs are glabrous or thinly hairy, and odorless when scraped. The leaves are alternate, ovate, 4–8 cm (1.5–3 in) long and 3–6 cm (1.2-2.4 in) broad, with a serrated margin and five to twelve pairs of veins. The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins 3–6 cm (1.2-2.4 in) long, the male catkins pendulous, the female catkins erect. The fruit is unusual among birches in maturing in late spring; it is composed of numerous tiny winged seeds packed between the catkin bracts.

While its native habitat is wet ground, it will grow on higher land, and its bark is quite distinctive, making it a favored ornamental tree for landscape use. A number of cultivars with much whiter bark than the normal wild type have been selected for garden planting, including 'Heritage' and 'Dura Heat'; these are notable as the only white-barked birches resistant to the bronze birch borer Agrilus anxius in warm areas of the southeastern United States of America.

Native Americans used the boiled sap as a sweetener similar to maple syrup, and the inner bark as a survival food. It is usually too contorted and knotty to be of value as a timber tree.

Author: Peter Cooper

River Birch - 01
• $screenshot$.jpg 7.70KB
• config.txt 4.72KB
riverbirchfall
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riverbirchbark.texture.txt 90 bytes
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textureatlas_normal.tga 4.00MB
riverbirchsummer
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billboardatlas_diffuse.tga 4.00MB
billboardatlas_normal.texture.txt 104 bytes
billboardatlas_normal.tga 4.00MB
riverbirchbark.texture.txt 90 bytes
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textureatlas_diffuse.texture.txt 102 bytes
textureatlas_diffuse.tga 4.00MB
riverbirchwinter
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billboardatlas_diffuse.tga 4.00MB
billboardatlas_normal.texture.txt 104 bytes
billboardatlas_normal.tga 4.00MB
riverbirchbark.texture.txt 90 bytes
riverbirchbark.tga 1.00MB
riverbirchwinterrt.srt 502.13KB
textureatlas_diffuse.texture.txt 102 bytes
textureatlas_diffuse.tga 2.00MB

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