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Landscaping & Wildlife: Betula papyrifera is commonly used as a landscape tree for it’s striking coloration. It is a desirable ornamental to be planted around homes and public buildings, in parks, and on campuses. Moose, snowshoe hare, and white-tailed deer browse paper birch. Numerous birds and small mammals eat the buds, catkins, and seeds.
Betula is Latin for birch; papyrifera is Latin for "bearing paper" referring to the thin, white, exfoliating bark. The white exfoliating bark is distinct on this species. The white exfoliating bark is great firestarter when in the wilderness where campfires are allowed. It should only be peeled from downed logs though and not live trees.
Paper Birch has an unusually broad range across Canada and northern United States, which extends into the Appalachian mountains. Across this range, several varieties have been described that are not currently recognized in Illinois.
Betula papyrifera (paper birch, [5] also known as (American) white birch[5] and canoe birch[5]) is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America. Paper birch is named after the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper -like layers from the trunk.
Enrichment extended into the top 3 cm (1.2 in) of the mineral soil where concentrations of calcium, nitrogen, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, and volatile matter and pH were increased. These increases resulted from the more rapid rate of decomposition of litter under birch than under red pine (93).
Growth continues and increases in speed through July, and then falls off gradually; relative to other species, which tend to concentrate their growth in short spurts, this species tends to grow (both in stem/twig length and diameter) more gradually and continually throughout the growing season.
Gray birch can be distinguished from Betula papyrifera by its tight, non-exfoliating bark. Other key characteristics include: tapered, sharp leaf tips (acuminate) and black triangular bark patches on branch bases. Several trees occur in a cluster, growing from the same root group.
