birch benefits

The birch trees grow in temperate forests of the North. It is an official national tree of both Finland and Sweden and an informal national symbol of Russia. It is also the most common tree growing in Norway. There are many different kinds of birch: white or paper birch, river birch, silver birch, weeping birch, yellow birch, Himalayan birch, cherry birch, swamp birch, etc…
The birch sometimes is called a pioneer of the forest, as her seeds are distributed easily with the wind, and they sprout quickly in open areas where not many things can grow yet. Later on the forest switches to birch-fir, birch-pine, etc…with the whole forest restoration cycle of a hundred years or more.