Betula lenta - Wikipedia
Betula lenta (sweet birch, also known as black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, or spice birch) is a species of birch native to eastern North America. Betula lenta is a medium-sized deciduous tree reaching 30 metres (98 ft) tall, exceptionally to 35 m …
8. BLACK BIRCH - Cornell University
From the Hudson River Valley to Lake Erie, except along the higher mountains, in moist or dry, gravelly soils, this tree is well known to boys and girls for the wintergreen flavor of its twigs. The wood is heavy, strong, hard, close-grained, and dark brown in color with yellowish sapwood, and is used for fuel and furniture, especially as a ...
Betula lenta — cherry birch - Go Botany
Cherry birch is also variously called black birch for its dark, shiny bark, and sweet birch for its wintergreen-smelling twigs. Saplings of this tree are often among the earliest colonizers of newly logged ground in southern New England.
Black Birch | Yale Nature Walk - Yale University
Black birch trees have ascending branches with thin, hariless twigs that are dark red/brown in color. A characteristic feature of the twigs of the black birch is that when broken, they have a strong wintergreen aroma. Staminate catkins hang down from twigs during the winter months and pistallate catkins bud off the ends of short-spur like branches.
Sweet Birch - US Forest Service Research and Development
Sweet birch (Betula lenta), also commonly referred to as black birch or cherry birch, was at one time the only source of oil of wintergreen. It is the aroma of wintergreen emanating from crushed leaves and broken twigs to which this birch owes its common name, sweet.
Black Birch Betula lenta - portraitoftheearth.com
Black Birch winter twig. The horizontal slits common to all Birches. Unlike the other birches, Black Birch bark hardly peels at all, even when fully mature.
Black Birch Tea - Wild Plant Culture
2012年12月9日 · We make black birch tea in the simplest way: go out and clip some branches, chop the twigs into small pieces (say, 1/2 inch to an inch long), and put them in a tea kettle with water that has just boiled (but is no longer boiling, otherwise the essential oils volatilize and ascend into the heavens--or at least steam up the kitchen windows).
Black Birch - Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Leaves of Black Birch are alternate, elliptical to ovate, and singly to doubly serrated on their margins. In summer they are dark green and shiny, and densely clothe the twigs and branches in the tree canopy. In autumn, the leaves of Black Birch turn bright yellow and gold, considered by most to be the best and most consistent of any Birch. Flower
Black Birch: Betula lenta | Summer 2008 | Articles - Northern …
Also called sweet birch, cherry birch, or mahogany birch, this species is perhaps the only tree around that is best recognized by the flavor of its twigs. The inner bark, as any twig-chewing child can tell you, is delicious and fragrant: its wintergreen taste is from the very same oil found in Gaultheria procumbens , a small, creeping forest ...
River Birch; Identification and uses of Betula nigra.
River Birch (Betula nigra) Other Names: Black Birch, Water Birch Range: Family: Betulaceae - Birch Family Growth Type: Deciduous tree Height: Can grow to 80-100 ft in height Leaves: The twigs are glabrous, or thinly haired. The alternate, ovate, leaves are 2-4 in long and 1½ - 3 in wide, and have a finely serrated margin. Stem/Trunk: