Hoyt Arboretum-Portland, Oregon
The paper birch also known as a white birch is a native tree of North America. It has many uses including using the inner bark as emergency food and can be dried and ground into a meal. It can also be added to flour and used to bake bread.
Its medicinal uses include treating dysentery, induce sweating, and treating various diseases of the blood. To read more about this beautiful, resourceful tree click here.
Tea can be made from root bark and young leaves of the tree. Spring is the time to tap the tree for sap, which beer, syrup, wine, and vinegar is made.
I LOVE the bark of birch trees! Thank you for sharing with Sunday Trees. 😊