• Plant: River Birch (Betula nigra)
  • Uploaded by SongofJoy
  • Info: Stem, scape, stalk or bark / 2003-07-09 / Tennessee / License: Creative Commons (cc-by-sa-nc-3.0) (Attribution, ShareAlike, NonCommercial)
  • Caption: Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Photo of River Birch (Betula nigra) uploaded by SongofJoy

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