DCHP-2

wire birch DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• a small species of birch, Betula populifolia, native to the Maritimes, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario.

  See also: swamp birch  gray birch  

  • 1917  (1920)  Betula Populifolia, Marsh. Common names: White birch, grey birch, wire birch, poplar leaved birch.
  • 1946  Henry loaded his musket with care and led the way to the tip of the bog barren. He cut a strip of bark from a "wire birch" and rolled it cornerwise into a horn. . . .
  • 1956  Then came the long reach of scrub woods, wire birch and poplar mostly, with blossoming clumps of Indian pear, like patches of snow on the slopes. . . .