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Betula alleghaniensis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Betula alleghaniensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Betula albosinensis
- Betula × aurata
- Betula bomiensis
- Betula × caerulea
- Betula chichibuensis
- Betula chinensis
- Betula coerulea-grandis
- Betula cordifolia
- Betula corylifolia
- Betula cylindrostachya
- Betula davurica
- Betula delavayi
- Betula ermanii
- Betula forrestii
- Betula glandulosa
- Betula globispica
- Betula grossa
- Betula humilis
- Betula insignis
- Betula lenta
- Betula luminifera
- Betula lutea
- Betula mandshurica
- Betula maximowicziana
- Betula medwediewii
- Betula nana
- Betula neoalaskana
- Betula nigra
- Betula occidentalis
- Betula papyrifera
- Betula pendula
- Betula platyphylla
- Betula populifolia
- Betula potaninii
- Betula pubescens
- Betula pumila
- Betula raddeana
- Betula schmidtii
- Betula szechuanica
- Betula tianschanica
- Betula × utahensis
- Betula utilis
The reason for adopting the above name is explained below, under B. lutea.
specimens: Wakehurst Place, Sussex, in Pheasantry, 46 × 33⁄4 ft (1981); Tilgate Park, Sussex, 66 × 7 ft at 3 ft (1982); Westonbirt, Glos., Willesley Avenue, 42 × 31⁄2 ft (1980); Edinburgh Botanic Garden, pl. 1904, 44 × 31⁄2 ft (1981); Innes House, Moray, 36 × 51⁄4 ft at 2 ft (1980); Tannadyce, Angus, 58 × 2 ft (1981).
This species, like B. lenta, has an inner bark smelling of oil of wintergreen, though this character is not nearly so marked as in its ally. The two are normally quite distinct in their bark, which is cherry-like in B. lenta but flaking in B. alleghaniensis. However, this distinction is not completely reliable as the latter does occasionally have a close bark in the wild, and such trees have botanical status as B. alleghaniensis f. fallax (Fasset) Brayshaw (B. lutea f. fallax Fasset). This form occurs in southern Quebec and Ontario, and has been wrongly identified as B. lenta – whence the epithet (T. C. Brayshaw in Canad. Field-Nat., Vol. 80 (1966), pp. 160–61).
