Downy birch

[SitkaSpruce]

I have a lot of normal silver birch in my wood but have always been intrigued by downy birch. I finally found pictures on how to distinguish them on a bonsai website! Today I identified a downy birch tree in my local country park. Gently furry!

[Dexter's Shed]

pictures showing us the difference would have been informative and made a more interesting read

[SitkaSpruce]

so here hopefully is link to website with good pictures of differences

http://www.bonsai4me.co.uk/AdvTech/ATBi ... cation.htm

downy birch like it wet- the one I found is growing in a bog

[Dexter's Shed]

cheers for that, I'll have to look more closely at ours, as I believed it to be silver birch, maybe its not,