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Definition of Betula fontinalis
1. Noun. Birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark.
Group relationships: Betula, Genus Betula
Generic synonyms: Birch, Birch Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betula Fontinalis
Literary usage of Betula fontinalis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope by George Bishop Sudworth (1908)
"betula fontinalis Sargent. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS. Mountain birch is a
slender, graceful tree or tall shrub, long known as Betula ..."
2. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1910)
"... of what seems to be this species in Colorado at Fort Collins (foothills), and
at Manitou upon leaves of the mountain birch, betula fontinalis. See Pig. ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"-—From California to Sitka, and eastward through British America to the Atlantic,
and southward in the mountains to New Mexico. 4. betula fontinalis Sarg. ..."
4. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921)
"... cause of a serious white heart rot in the common aspen (Populus tremuloides)
and also causes aa similar heart rot in mountain birch (betula fontinalis). ..."
5. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"In the far West there is a tree sometimes called the Western Black Birch (Betula
fontinalis) which occurs in the mountain canons. It is not a tall species, ..."
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