Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

THE elegant silver birch tree in my back garden helps define the changing seasons. Nut and seed-filled feeders currently hang from its leafless pendulous boughs, providing sustenance for wild birds ...

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A recent report in the scientific journal Nature Genetics 49: 904–12 (May 2017), doi:10.1038/ng.3862, disclosed the results of genomic DNA sequencing and analysis of Betula pendula, the silver birch ...

Silver birch trees are being blamed for causing health problems in Timaru. Former councillor and current South Canterbury District Health Board member Terry Kennedy says he has never been affected by ...

Wall-grown peach and nectarine trees need to be protected from leaf curl, a disfiguring fungal disease. It's caused by the Taphrina deformans fungus, which is carried in rain and causes severe ...

A new study sequences the genomes of 80 silver birch trees, a tree that has not been studied much by scientists despite its commercial value for papermaking, construction, furniture-building and more.

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Silver birch trees are being cut down from a Whanganui residential street after complaints that they may be causing asthma. Video Emma Russell Silver birch trees are being cut down from a Whanganui ...