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clusters, without petals); and fruit that is a small nut or winged samara (a dry fruit, having a flattened wing of fibrous, papery tissue), although the wings may be obscure in some species. birches differ from the alders (alnus, another genus in the betulaceae family) in that the female catkins are not
woody and disintegrate at maturity, falling apart to release the seeds, unlike the woody cone-like female alder catkins. birches often have bark that peels in papery layers (not in the case of gray birch). birches are versatile trees, offering important commercial, aesthetic, and ecological values....
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