A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark.

Paper bark birch has outer white bark that peels off in horizontal sheets to reveal reddish-brown bark beneath. In comparison, river birch has scaly bark mottled with brown, beige, and orange that ...

You might not expect tree fungus to be particularly useful, but — surprise — it’s often very handy. If you have birch or black locust trees growing near you, then you probably have some ...

There are several other birch species with attractive bark, including European white birch (Betula pendula) with white, non-peeling bark eventually mottled with black, sweet birch (Betula lenta) with ...

As a result, our relatively white birch bark can blacken. It was so bad, a number of companies popped up in Southcentral and made good money spraying trees.

Bad idea, but thankfully you can make a band-aid out of birch tree fungus in a pinch. This trick feels appropriate coming from an Instructables user named "fallscrape." ...