Tasting Wintergreen: Ode to the Black and Yellow Birches

We have 5 native birch tree species in New England: black or sweet birch (Betula lenta); grey birch (Betula populifolia); river birch (Betula nigra), which confusingly is sometimes also called black birch; white birch (Betula papyrifera), which is also called paper or canoe birch; and yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis). Birches are in Betulaceae or birch…

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