Silver birch, Betula pendula
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Silver birch, Betula pendula
Image: © Mike Kirby Taken: 7 Mar 2011
A slender elegant tree with distinctive, mainly silvery white bark, with black patches, which can grow to 30m. Pictured here lining the SE entrance to Lofthouse Colliery Nature Park.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.71858
Longitude
-1.505149