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Common name: Fox Valley River Birch
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Latin name: Betula
nigra 'Little King' Common name: Fox Valley River Birch |
Photograph showing Winter habit of Fox
Valley River Birch.
Photograph
showing Summer habit of Fox Valley
River Birch.
Picture
of leaves and catkins of Fox Valley
River Birch. The leaf margin is double
serrate. The leaf shape is ovate and the leaf venation
is pinnate.
Close
up of leaves and catkin of Fox
Valley River Birch. I did not see
any catkins on this tree during the winter.
Trunk
and branches of Fox
Valley River Birch with peeling bark.Morton Arboretum accession tag 45-92*1 plt E-17/00-66
This tree
is on the left side of the road in Betulaceae.
| Kingdom: Plantae -- Plants | |||||||||
| Subkingdom: Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants | |||||||||
| Superdivision: Spermatophyta -- Seed plants | |||||||||
| Division: Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants | |||||||||
| Class: Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons | |||||||||
| Subclass: Hamamelidae | |||||||||
| Order: Fagales | |||||||||
| Family: Betulaceae -- Birch family | |||||||||
| Genus: Betula L. -- birch P | |||||||||
| Species: Betula nigra | |||||||||
Source for classification listing: USDA, NRCS. 2004. The PLANTS Database,
Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov).
National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
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