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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">Betula alleghaniensis</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>yellow birch</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>Betula</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Quebec birch</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>hard birch</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>silver birch</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>swamp birch</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>yellow birch</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Species of ornamental and timber tree native to the northeastern part of North America. It is among the largest of birches, reaching 30 m (100 feet) on cool, moist bottomlands and on drier soils to elevations of 1,950 m. On limbs and young trunks the silvery yellow bark peels in paper-thin curls; on old trunks it is red-brown, deeply grooved, and broken into irregular plates. The pale green twigs are slightly aromatic. The hard, pale red-brown wood usually is not separated from that of sweet birch commercially. ]]></note></mads>