White Birch WoodBirch wood has the following characteristics:
- Widely distributed: In China, it is mainly distributed in the Greater Kaxing 'an Mountains, the Lesser Hinggan Mountains, the Changbai Mountains, the high mountains in North China, and the Altai Mountains in the northwest. It is distributed below 1000m above sea level (1300 - 2700m in North China). It is also distributed in the Far East of the Soviet Union, Eastern Siberia, Eastern Mongolia, Northern Korea, and Japan. It can grow in a variety of environments, such as swamps, dry sunny slopes and humid shady slopes. It has strong adaptability to soil, likes acidic soil, has deep roots, and is resistant to barren soil. It is often mixed with Korean pine, larch, poplar, and Mongolian oak or pure forest. It has good natural regeneration, fast growth, and strong sprouting, but its lifespan is relatively short.
- Physical characteristics: White Birch is a tree, up to 27 meters high; bark is grayish-white, peeling in layers; branches are dark gray or dark brown, hairless, with sparse or dense resin glands or not; Branchlets are dark gray or brown, hairless and no resin glands, sometimes sparse hair and sparse resin glands. The leaves are thick, papery, triangular-ovate and other shapes, 3 - 9 cm long, 2 - 7.5 cm wide, sharp at the top, etc., base, etc., with many shapes, the edge has multiple teeth, such as double serrations. When young, the upper part is sparsely covered with hair and gland points. When mature, it is hairless and without gland points. The lower part is hairless and densely covered with gland points. The lateral veins are 5 - 7 (-8) pairs. The petiole is thin, 1 - 2.5 cm long, glabrous. Frutescence solitary, cylindrical or oblong-cylindrical, usually pendulous, 2 - 5 cm long, 6 - 14 mm in diam. Pedicle thin, 1 - 2.5 cm long, densely pubescent, nearly glabrous when mature, without or with sparse or dense resin glands; Fruit bud 5 - 7 mm long, densely pubescent on the back until the hair gradually falls off at maturity, with short hairs on the edge, base cuneiform or wide cuneiform, middle lobe triangular-ovate, apex acuminate or obtuse, lateral lobe ovate or subround, erect, diagonally spreading to downward curve, nutlet narrowly oblong-round, oblong-round or ovate, 1.5 - 3 mm long, about 1 - 1.5 mm wide, sparsely pubescent on the back, membrane wing longer than fruit 1/3, less as long as fruit. It is as wide as the fruit or slightly wider than the fruit.
- Main value:
- Basic uses: Can be used as glued board, jointess, furniture, single board, preventing spools, shoe last, vehicles, sports equipment, musical instruments, raw materials for paper making, etc.
- Health use: Birch juice was obtained from wild birch trees in the primeval forest in the Greater Kaxing 'an Mountains. It was a colorless or slightly yellowish transparent liquid with a faint fragrance. It contained essential and easily absorbed vitamins, organic acid, and various kinds of mineral salt. It also contained essential oil, betulol, soap, and cell kinin. It was rich in many kinds of vitamins, minerals, and so on. Birch juice drinks had anti-fatigue properties. It had anti-aging effects.
- Medicinal function: White Birch sap is beneficial to human health. It has anti-fatigue, cough and other medicinal effects. It is called "natural beer" and "forest drink" by Europeans.
At the same time, the white birch wood was not resistant to sunlight when it was made into wooden flooring, and the degree of fading was more serious than ceramic tiles. It could also be used to imitate the white wood grain paint on the surface of the outdoor barbecue table, making the table look like white birch wood.
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