from the iconic paper birch (Betula papyrifera) with its distinctive peeling white bark to the weeping river birch (Betula nigra 'Summer Cascade') with its unusual weeping habit and petite height ...

In 1951, archaeologists in Novgorod discovered the first Old Russian birch-bark texts, and more than 1,200 of them have been found to date. Before the availability of paper, soft birch bark was ...