Tree Recognition Challenge #8

[British Red]

Ready? Steady? Go!

The bark

The flower

The leaf

The tree

Red

 

[Mang]

Good old silver Birch.

 

[John Fenna]

Downy Birch?

 

[addo]

Silver Birch - Betula pendula

 

[SOAR]

Betula Pendula

 

[British Red]

The Bushcrafters Friend

The bark

The flower

The leaf

The tree

This is a Silver Birch or Betula pendula

Possible the most useful of all trees. The inner bark can be cooked and dried into a flour meal. The sap can be tapped and drinken, fermented, boiled down into a syrup. The leaves can be eaten raw of made into a tea.

The bark in fine powder or papery form makes a great tinder. Larger bark sections can make waterproof containers or canoe skins. Cooked in a tin a waterproof tar can be made. A good charcoal can also be made from the bark. The younf branches make very good brooms. The wood burns well when seasoned, is light and strong.

http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Betula+pendula

If you know only one tree - know this one

Red