A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Betula pendula
It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, typically reaching 15 - 25 m tall (exceptionally up to 39 m), with a slender trunk usually under 40 cm diameter, but exceptionally to 1 m diameter, and a crown of arched branches with drooping branchlets. The bark is white, often with black diamond-shaped marks or larger patches, particularly at the base.
It is a widespread European birch, though in southern Europe it is only found at higher altitudes. Its range extends into southwest Asia in the mountains of northern Turkey and the Caucasus.
Other names: Weeping Birch, European Weeping Birch. Young leaves can be consumed when cooked. It is possible to produce birch syrup (in the similar way like maple syrup but it takes much longer cause birch takes more time to produce the same amount). Sometimes this syrup is fermented and use to making a sort of alcoholic drink.
Spotted on Apr 14, 2013
Submitted on Apr 15, 2013
3 Comments
he was pale, but not skinny at the time, he is skinny now! :) hehe. i've noticed that there are loads of names of plants that we use it in our surnames or names, like Iris, Breza, Gavez etc. -very interesting :)
Was he white/pale and skinny? HA HA HA, the word is probably old Slavic :)
my professor for slovenian language surname was Breza(r) :)