paper birch
noun
: a North American birch (Betula papyrifera) with peeling white bark and toothed ovate leaves
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This was demonstrated in a study of paper birch and Douglas fir trees growing together in a forest.
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Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
When the Douglas firs were under stress due to drought or shady conditions and could not photosynthesize sufficiently to supply their need for sugar, adjoining paper birch trees supplied sugar to the Douglas firs through interconnected mycorrhizae.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
Paras, his father, and his lawyer walked across the street from the prosecutor’s office into a small park of paper birch trees in front of the Anchorage Museum.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
The area around Smith Falls — which is now a state park, but was once the homestead of its namesake, Frederic Smith — still hosts ice age flora not found elsewhere in Nebraska, including paper birches and aspens.
—Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
As summers and winters become warmer, experts predict animals, including moose and the state bird, the loon, along with species of the vast northern forests like paper birch, quaking aspen, balsam fir, and black spruce, will shift northward into Canada.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022
Years later, Suzanne Simard, then an ecologist with the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, demonstrated two-way carbon transfer in a forest between young Douglas fir and paper birch trees.
—Gabriel Popkin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
The terrain was becoming rockier now, with paper birch and spruce trees replacing the canopy of sugar maples and yellow birch.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
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Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
When the Douglas firs were under stress due to drought or shady conditions and could not photosynthesize sufficiently to supply their need for sugar, adjoining paper birch trees supplied sugar to the Douglas firs through interconnected mycorrhizae.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2025
Crape myrtles, sycamores, paper birches and a few other species just happen to do it in large sheets of paper-thin bark.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2024
Paras, his father, and his lawyer walked across the street from the prosecutor’s office into a small park of paper birch trees in front of the Anchorage Museum.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
The area around Smith Falls — which is now a state park, but was once the homestead of its namesake, Frederic Smith — still hosts ice age flora not found elsewhere in Nebraska, including paper birches and aspens.
—Carrie Dennis, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2023
As summers and winters become warmer, experts predict animals, including moose and the state bird, the loon, along with species of the vast northern forests like paper birch, quaking aspen, balsam fir, and black spruce, will shift northward into Canada.
—Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2022
Years later, Suzanne Simard, then an ecologist with the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, demonstrated two-way carbon transfer in a forest between young Douglas fir and paper birch trees.
—Gabriel Popkin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
The terrain was becoming rockier now, with paper birch and spruce trees replacing the canopy of sugar maples and yellow birch.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2021
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