The pioneer species Silver Birch (Betula pendula) colonising former farmland on the high ground of Wadsley Common, NW Sheffield.

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Location: Wadsley Common, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Great Britain
Photo credit: © Phil Wolstenholme / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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