birch

The birch is a trees in the family of betulaceae trees that is related to the fagaceae trees. These trees and shrubs are small-medium size, the cork is marked by horizontal lenticels that are separates by paper plates; the cork colour gives the name of red, white, black, silver and yellow birch. Here there are photos of birch mountain forest taken during trekking in northern Italy.

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