birch family

noun

1. the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.

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The white bark of this European poplar reminds us of the birch family, though it has no silky fringe shedding from the surface.

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THE blue beech, or American hornbeam, belongs to the birch family rather than to the beeches.

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I also suffer from OAS and seasonal allergies and react most strongly to plants in the birch family.

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Some of these trees are sixty or seventy feet high, and all are very graceful, this species being considered the most beautiful of the numerous birch family.

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Another small tree of the birch family is the speckled alder, Alnus incana Moench, which is found occasionally in wet places in the northern part of the State.

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