Seems I should have been more definitive when I said 'actual' white birch, denoting the North American native tree, betula papyrifera (the paper birch, whose truly white bark is fairly easily peeled and more easily written upon). Its bark has also been used in canoe-making.Fozzer wrote:Invasive Silver Birch Trees:
....blame it on all those pesky Europeans invading the East Coast of North America and Canada, and taking all sorts of bits and bobs along with them!
What you're calling European white birch, as you say, is what we call silver birch which, to my eyes, is sort of a slivery greenish-grey color.
