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Betulaceae

 5-Smooth Birch Bark

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Many birches have smooth bark, like Betula papyrifera, the native paperbark birch, which was used by Native Americans to make canoes. This slide is of a cultivar of a species native to the Himalaya, Betula utilis 'Jermyns'.
Taken by K. R. Robertson at the Hillier Arboretum, Hampshire, England
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