The river birch tree (Betula nigra) is a shade tree with a quick growing rate of 1 ½ to 2 feet per year and native to the ...

Made from distilled black birch sap, birch beer is a quintessential Pennsylvania soda that'll win over root beer lovers.

The birch tree has a tell-tale white bark In a forest ... minerals and sugars are pushed up from the roots of the birch and the trunks are tapped releasing the valuable liquid into attached ...

While gray birch trees can handle occasional periods of dryness, they do best in consistently moist soils. They have a ...