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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Betulaceae (カバノキ科) > Betula papyrifera
Betula L. (カバノキ)Kamikanba (カミカンバ, 紙樺) * tentative translation (not in wide use), paper birch (American white birch / canoe birch) |
Varieties: regional populations |
1. Leaves rounded in apex
2. Leaves small up to 2 cm long, crenate, serrate, petioles short, densely fine-pubescent; wing of nutlets narrow
3. Leaves orbicular, with truncate or cordate base, often broader than long, crenulated all around; decumbent dwarf shrub ___ B. nana ssp. exilis, dwarf birch 2. Leaves large ___ B. nana × B. glandulosa |
1. Leaves acute or somewhat acute in apex
2. Leaves yellowish-green, especially below, with distinctly prolonged caudate apex _____ B. occidentalis
3. Leaves triangular or diamond-shaped, with white hairs in margin; wings of nutlet as broad as body or narrower _____ B. kenaica |
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[1/2] at Poker Flat that was burnt in the summer of 2004 on August 10 2012.