Species profile
White Birch
Betula papyrifera
8,531 on Toronto's streets — 1.24% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 15: clear yellow against white bark
Toronto history — Paper birch — native to northern Ontario forests, planted as an ornamental in Toronto for the white bark. Struggles in heat; increasingly rare in new plantings.
Betula papyrifera is a short-lived species of birch native to northern North America. Paper birch is named after the tree's thin white bark, which often peels in paper-like layers from the trunk. Paper birch is often one of the first species to colonize a burned area within the northern latitudes, and is an important species for moose browsing. Primary commercial uses for paper birch wood are as b
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Banbury-Don Mills | 668 |
| St.Andrew-Windfields | 530 |
| Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills | 360 |
| Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills | 311 |
| Don Valley Village | 248 |
| Hillcrest Village | 239 |
| Bedford Park-Nortown | 232 |
| Bayview Village | 229 |