Himalayan Birch
ಭೂರ್ಜಪತ್ರभोजपत्रভূর্জবৃক্ষ
Betula utilis D.Don
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- —
Betulaceae
When it flowers
JFMAMJJASOND
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Afghanistan to N. & C. China and N. MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 20 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 桦树液, 糙皮桦
- Simplified Chinese
- 糙皮桦
- Hindi
- भोजपत्र
- Kannada
- ಭೂರ್ಜಪತ್ರ
- Bangla
- ভূর্জবৃক্ষ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Betula utilis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.