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red birch

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Noun1.red birch - birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown barkred birch - birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
Betula, genus Betula - a genus of trees of the family Betulaceae (such as birches)
birch tree, birch - any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark


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If you peel the flitch full rotary, you get nice big sheets of art white, which are graded out, then two-toned, so-called natural birch, and then all red heartwood or red birch.
Red birch grows slowly to around 40 feet and, although a California native, requires regular moisture because of its riparian habitat, which means that it grows naturally on the banks of rivers or streams.
The bark of the Chinese red birch, Betula albosinensis, is also quite rough, this time a pinkish copper colour with creamy white lining, again revealed when the outer bark peels.
 
 
 
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