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.

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.

What looks like white marble pillars springs up from the white ground covered in snow. The scene gives visitors the sense of witnessing some natural miracle. This forest filled with white birch trees ...

Its chalky-white bark peels away from the trunk in thin, curly, papery strips, even on young trees. White birch can attain a height of 120 feet and a diameter of almost 4 feet in exceptional ...

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 ...

There are 130 birch trees in the one-third acre study plot, part of the OneTree Alaska project that Dawe oversees. Researchers are using the trees to see how a longer growing season is affecting ...

To artist Kim Yeon-hwa, white birch trees are a source of inspiration. Over the past 20 years, she has solely focused on getting that particular tree on canvas. She explores the different looks of the ...

If you take a walk in a snowy field (or forest) among some birch trees, look down. You should see tiny things in the snow, little seed-like structures.

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.