Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus Betula. The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like...

Birch bark manuscripts are documents written on pieces of the inner layer of birch bark, which was commonly used for writing before the mass production...

the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins. The bark of all birches is characteristically marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and...

Birch (bark) tar or birch pitch is a substance (liquid when heated) derived from the dry distillation of the bark of the birch tree. Birch tar/pitch is...

Birch beer is a beverage, commonly found as a carbonated soft drink made from herbal extracts and birch bark. There are dozens of brands of birch beer...

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...

roof is birch bark. The main purpose of the sod is to hold the birch bark in place. The roof might just as well have been called a "birch bark roof", but...

by Andrey Zaliznyak to describe the Old East Slavic dialect found in birch bark writings (berestyanaya gramota). Dating from the 11th to 15th centuries...

The birch bark letter given the document number 292 is the oldest known document in any Finnic language. The document is dated to the beginning of the...

Anishinaabe syllabics: ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᒃ, plural: wiigwaasabakoon ᐧᐆᒃᐧᐋᓴᐸᑰᓐ) is a birch bark scroll, on which the Ojibwa (Anishinaabe) people of North America wrote...

[citation needed] The silver birch is a medium-sized deciduous tree that owes its common name to the white peeling bark on the trunk. The twigs are slender...

1220 or 1260. He left his notes and homework exercises scratched in soft birch bark which was preserved in the clay soil of Novgorod. Onfim, who was most...

A birch-bark roof (in Finnish: malkakatto or tuohikatto) is a roof construction traditional in Finland and Norway for farmhouses and farm buildings built...

trunks. Bark Bark characteristics of the river birch differ during its youth stage, maturation, and old growth. The bark of a young river birch can vary...

Prunus serrula, called birch bark cherry, birchbark cherry, paperbark cherry, or Tibetan cherry, is a species of cherry native to China, and is used as...

wintergreen, black cherry bark, licorice root, sarsaparilla root, nutmeg, acacia, anise, molasses, cinnamon, sweet birch, and honey. Soybean protein...

Bark is the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the tissues...

Birch triterpenes, sold under the brand name Filsuvez, is an extract of birch bark used as a topical medication for the treatment of epidermolysis bullosa...

Americas built bark canoes. They were usually skinned with birch bark over a light wooden frame, but other types could be used if birch was scarce. At...

years ago, when Neanderthals produced tar from the dry distillation of birch bark for use in binding stone tools to wooden handles. The first references...

written down about the 3rd-century BCE. The manuscripts were made from birch bark or palm leaves, which decompose and therefore were routinely copied over...

methods of his ancestors: birch bark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Once the festival was over, he then donated the birch bark canoe to the Royal Ontario...

Birch syrup is a savory, mineral-tasting syrup made from birch sap, and produced in much the same way as maple syrup. However, it is seldom used for pancake...

Betula alba), commonly known as downy birch and also as moor birch, white birch, European white birch or hairy birch, is a species of deciduous tree, native...

described either as "birch bark bitings" or "birch bark transparencies." Artists chose thin and flexible pieces of birch bark. This kind of bark is easiest to...

quite brittle. The heartwood is pink or light reddish brown. The bark of Himalayan birch was used centuries ago in India as paper for writing lengthy scriptures...

A wiigwaasi-makak (plural: wiigwaasi-makakoon), meaning "birch-bark box" in the Anishinaabe language, is a box made of panels of birchbark sewn together...

wedizhichigewinid—Deeds of a Little-boy. Mide societies keep wiigwaasabak (birch bark scrolls) that preserve their teachings. They have degrees of initiations...

Paper, paper towels, toilet paper, etc. Dry pine needles, leaves or grass Birch bark Dead, standing (usually one season old) goldenrod Cloth, lint, or frayed...

form of bark-tanned cow leather. It is distinguished from other types of leather by a processing step that takes place after tanning, where birch oil is...