The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will ...

Each acorn contains only one seed. The silver birch grows fast in its youth, reaches 25 metres on average and can live up to 200 years. It owes its name to the peeling white bark on its trunk. Young ...

The study focused on silver birch trees and found that species richness and competitive pressure for light in the immediate vicinity influenced the timing of spring leaf burst, while water ...