Downy Birch (Betula pubescens). Short lived species, but with a bark which is waterproof and resistant to fungus.


Downy Birch (Betula pubescens). Short lived species, but with a bark which is waterproof and resistant to fungus; trunk often left as a shell, left intact round the collapsed and rotting wood of the tree. Calthorpe Broad NNR, SSSI. Norfolk Broads.


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