downy birch

Also found in: Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

Related to downy birch: silver birch

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

downy birch - European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches

Betula pubescens, white birch

Betula, genus Betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)

birch tree, birch - any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

The trees include dogwood, guelder rose, downy birch, alder, and willow which will be planted along with hedgerows of hawthorn, blackthorn and hazel.

Hundreds of trees planted in a pilot to help reduce flood risk

"Sessile oak, downy birch, rowan, hazel, wild cherry - even the names are beautiful," said Gillian, Wales' national poet "Already the first leaves are opening.

Poetic licence to plant trees as grant deadline nears

There are six varieties planted - hazel, crab apple, downy birch, hawthorn, holly and goat willow.

Children do their bit to help transform village park

These botanicals, endemic to the Scottish island, are apple mint, sweet chamomile, creeping thistle, downy birch, elder, gorse, hawthorn, heather, juniper, lady's bedstraw, lemon balm, meadowsweet, mugwort, red clover, spearmint, sweet cicely, bog myrtle (sweet gale), tansy, water mint, white clover, wild thyme, and wood sage.

The Botanist and Me

Further investigation might have revealed that it wasn't a bird to blame for the tattooing, however, but a chap called Jim Mann tapping away at the 150 downy birch trees in preparation for harvesting their sap to turn into syrup.

Jim taps into birch sweetness; Is that a woodpecker I hear in those trees? Maybe not. JANE HALL tracks down the man behind the country's first commercially-produced birch syrup, harvested in County Durham

We tested this hypothesis by comparing the size of annual shoots of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), downy birch (Betula pubescens), and Norway spruce (Picea abies) along a distance gradient from supplementary feeding stations.

Shoot growth responses at supplementary feeding stations for moose in Norway

We also made another more utilitarian kitchen garden and some irregularshaped beds, housing an assortment of left-over plants, a grove of downy birch and red dogwood.

How proud Tudors grand gardens to a left a legacy of corner of Wales; There are many historic gardens across Wales yet one county in particular stands out with its collection of idyllic plots that have survived throughout several centuries, reports Farming Editor Sally Williams

They are being replaced by native species ranging from downy birch to oak.

Woodland worker proves to be a real festive high flyer

The minister planted a downy birch tree before being accompanied by owner Mark Sillars on a tour around the farm.