It is planted decoratively in parks and gardens and is used for forest products such as joinery timber, firewood, tanning, racecourse jumps, and brooms. Various parts of the tree are used in traditional medicine and the bark contains triterpenes, which have been shown to have medicinal properties.

Description

The silver birch typically reaches 15 to 25 m tall, exceptionally up to 31 m, with a slender trunk usually under 40 cm in diameter. The bark

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