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A. Pistillate flowers 



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THE CHERRY BIRCH {Betula lenta) 



The brown bark has a silky outside layer marked with horizontal slits, just as cherry trees have. On olil trunks this smooth 

 aver is replaced by rough, broken plates. The wood is like black cherry. The twigs have a pleasant, aromatic taste, quite 

 inlike the rank, bitter taste of cherry bark. The leaves come out in pairs from side buds in late .Xpril. The staminate catkms 

 re in evidence in winter, sealed up tight at the ends of twigs. In early April thev shake out their golden pollen on every breeze, 

 nd the erect green catkins of pistillate flowers show themselves close at hand. In early summer the oval erect cones shed 



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