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refers to the hard, close-grained wood of these trees. birches are characterized by simple, alternate, serrated (toothed) leaves ; male and female flowers on the same plant with the flowers in the form of catkins (wind-pollinated, cylindrical flower 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...
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