Dear Master Gardener: We would like to plant a large shade tree with beautiful fall color to add to our landscape. Is a ...

Hardwoods. Yellow Birch. Agriculture Handbook 654, USDA Forest Service, Washington DC. Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and Maine Forest Service. 2008. Forest Trees of Maine.

Birch trees have both male catkins (which dangle) and female catkins (which stand erect) on the same tree. Male catkins release pollen in the spring which blows around until it encounters and then ...

Yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis): This tree is native to forests of the northeast U.S. and is also known as the swamp birch due to the fact that it is often found in marshy areas.

I took that class in 1988 and all these years later I remembered the scientific name of the yellow birch perfectly! Anyway, this is a really great tree to talk about in the wintertime because it ...