It is a close relative of the common birch and is a shrub with big amount branches. The height of the bush does not exceed one meter, and the width of its crown can reach one and a half meters. It has small and round leaves that are dark green above and light green below.
Sometimes dwarf birch is so small that only leaves can be seen on the surface of the lichen. The leaves are attached to the stems using short petioles. The earrings of this type of birch, in turn, are small and have a round-oval design. During ripening, they crumble into their component parts: scales and fruits.
The fruits are small, about 2 millimeters long, oval nuts with wings on the sides. Dwarf birch blooms in May, before the leaves bloom, with small, unisexual and unattractive flowers. Fruiting occurs starting in June.
Dwarf birch grows quite slowly. Its winter hardiness is very high, it is not for nothing that it grows in the northern regions of the earth’s hemispheres: North America, Northern Russia, Yakutia and Western Siberia. It is very often found in the highlands of the Alps. Her favorite places are rocky slopes and swampy areas of the Tundra.
The decorative type of dwarf birch is used for landscaping personal plots, areas around buildings, for landscaping park facilities and creating landscape views in landscape design. Thanks to the compact, rounded shape of the crown, this shrub does not require constant trimming.
Planting and care. Before planting, a hole is dug into which a mixture of garden soil, peat, humus and sand is added. Subsequently, the plant is fed complex fertilizers, starting from spring until autumn. For feeding, you can use nitrogen-containing fertilizers such as mullein, nitrogen fertilizer and ammonium nitrate. In the fall, you can use nitroammophoska or Kemira-universal fertilizer for fertilizing.
After planting in the first 3-4 days, it is necessary to water the plant abundantly, and on hot days it is advisable to increase the volume of liquid.
To control weeds, loosen the soil in the area of the root system. In addition, the soil will be saturated with oxygen.
After the earrings have ripened, you can sow the seeds. This can be done immediately or wait until late autumn after collecting the seeds.
Reproduction. Dwarf birch propagated by seedlings or seeds. Seedlings are planted in the ground in spring or autumn. They choose loose, well-fertilized soils, but as practice shows, they take root well on any type of soil. At the same time, the dwarf birch loves moisture very much, so it needs to be provided with regular watering. When planting large plants with an open root system, their death is possible, since stronger plants do not like replanting and do not take root well.
Pests. The dwarf birch has its own significant set of pests. These include mole crickets, bladderworts (thrips), beetleworms, goldfish, silkworms, and leaf sawflies. When fighting them, the shrub should be treated with fungicides and insecticides.
Tundra is one of the most suitable places for its growth. In this regard, it is the most common plant of the tundra. In this place there are entire thickets of this type of birch, especially in the southern part of the tundra. Moreover, it is distributed over almost the entire area of the tundra zone. Its neighbors in these harsh areas are lichens, moss and dwarf willows. Basically, dwarf birch serves as food for animals, but larger specimens are used by the local population as fuel.
In the tundra, this type of birch is called “ernik”, which translated means “shrub”. It is very difficult to survive in the harsh conditions of the North, and therefore this type of bush has developed its own survival technology. It grows and moves further under layers of snow cover, spreading thick branches widely. Thus it is protected from severe frosts and freezing. That's why it grows not as a straight tree, but as a spreading shrub. Ernik is woven into the moss with its many branches to such an extent that on the surface you can only notice the leaves and catkins of the dwarf birch. With its thickets it occupies a very large areas and through the same thickets it moves deeper into the tundra.
In such conditions, propagation by seeds occurs very rarely due to the fact that the seeds do not have time to ripen, and they rarely develop. Ernik has another, more effective method ready - vegetative. The bush literally crawls along the ground, clinging to it with its branches. As a result of such contact, auxiliary roots are formed on the branches and at the points of their formation, young shoots of dwarf birch emerge in the coming year. Seeds of dwarf birch develop at the beginning of great cold weather and remain in winter period in earrings.
Young dwarf birch shoots appear only in areas where nothing is growing at that moment. Such areas appear after animals visit these places, for example, caribou are reindeer. They very actively clear the territory of everything edible, especially since there is not so much of it in the tundra. This space is then irrigated with melted spring waters. The combination of all these conditions allows the dwarf birch to occupy this territory. In the future, having populated this area, it will become one of the links in a huge, and so necessary, root chain.
Despite its small size, the dwarf birch can live for about 100 years. After reaching this age, the process of rejuvenation of the bush begins to occur. Old branches begin to dry out and finally die. In their place, new young branches are formed, which begin new life. But not all shrubs thus continue their movement across the tundra. Many of them dry up on the root, and bearberry settles in its place. As soon as young dwarf birch shoots appear in this place, the bearberry gradually begins to retreat. Based on this, we can say that dwarf birch is resistant not only to the harsh conditions of the tundra, but also has great “survivability.”
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Birch dwarf, small birch or dwarf birch, (lat. Betula nána) - a species of plants of the genus Birch ( Betula) family Birch ( Betulaceae).
In Russian there are also names Yornik , Ernik, birch berry, slate, birch slate, Ernik-shale, Carla, era.
The species' range covers almost the entire territory of Europe, except for the extreme southern regions, and almost the entire territory of Canada. On the territory of Russia it grows in the north of the European part of Russia, in Western Siberia and Yakutia, Chukotka, and Kamchatka.
Outside the north it can be found in mountains above 300 m, it is found in mountains up to 835 m in Scotland and up to 2200 m in the Alps.
Birch forms continuous thickets in the Arctic tundra, in the alpine zone, in moss sphagnum or hypnum swamps in the forest zone, called yerniks.
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View Dwarf birch belongs to the genus Birch ( Betula) subfamily Birch ( Betuloideae) family Birch ( Betulaceae) order Beeceae ( Fagales).
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In the subspecies nana young shoots are pubescent, but not sticky; the leaves are longer (up to 2.5 cm), usually the length and width are approximately the same. The subspecies is widespread in the northwestern part of Asia, Europe (to the south - in the Alps at high altitudes), in Greenland, on Baffin Island (Canada).
In the subspecies exilis young shoots are hairless or have individual scattered hairs, sticky. The leaves are shorter (no more than 12 mm in length), often wider than long. The subspecies is widespread in the northeastern part of Asia, in the north of North America (Alaska, Canada).
“Yes, yes, of course,” Pierre picked up, delighted at the help that was coming to him.
“It’s impossible not to admit,” continued Prince Andrei, “Napoleon as a person is great on the Arcole Bridge, in the hospital in Jaffa, where he gives his hand to the plague, but... but there are other actions that are difficult to justify.”
Prince Andrei, apparently wanting to soften the awkwardness of Pierre's speech, stood up, getting ready to go and signaling to his wife.
Suddenly Prince Hippolyte stood up and, stopping everyone with hand signs and asking them to sit down, spoke:
- Ah! aujourd"hui on m"a raconte une anecdote moscovite, charmante: il faut que je vous en regale. Vous m"excusez, vicomte, il faut que je raconte en russe. Autrement on ne sentira pas le sel de l"histoire. [Today I was told a charming Moscow joke; you need to teach them. Sorry, Viscount, I will tell it in Russian, otherwise the whole point of the joke will be lost.]
And Prince Hippolyte began to speak Russian with the accent that the French speak when they have been in Russia for a year. Everyone paused: Prince Hippolyte so animatedly and urgently demanded attention to his story.
– There is one lady in Moscow, une dame. And she's very stingy. She needed to have two valets de pied [footmen] for the carriage. And very tall. It was to her liking. And she had une femme de chambre [maid], still very tall. She said…
Here Prince Hippolyte began to think, apparently having difficulty thinking straight.
“She said... yes, she said: “girl (a la femme de chambre), put on the livree [livery] and come with me, behind the carriage, faire des visites.” [make visits.]
Here Prince Hippolyte snorted and laughed much earlier than his listeners, which made an unfavorable impression for the narrator. However, many, including the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, smiled.
- She went. suddenly became strong wind. The girl lost her hat and her long hair was combed...
Here he could no longer hold on and began to laugh abruptly and through this laughter he said:
- And the whole world knew...
That's the end of the joke. Although it was not clear why he was telling it and why it had to be told in Russian, Anna Pavlovna and others appreciated the social courtesy of Prince Hippolyte, who so pleasantly ended Monsieur Pierre’s unpleasant and ungracious prank. The conversation after the anecdote disintegrated into small, insignificant talk about the future and the past ball, performance, about when and where they would see each other.
Having thanked Anna Pavlovna for her charmante soiree [charming evening], the guests began to leave.
Pierre was clumsy. Fat, taller than usual, broad, with huge red hands, he, as they say, did not know how to enter a salon and even less knew how to leave it, that is, to say something especially pleasant before leaving. Besides, he was distracted. Getting up, instead of his hat, he grabbed a three-cornered hat with a general's plume and held it, tugging at the plume, until the general asked to return it. But all his absent-mindedness and inability to enter the salon and speak in it were redeemed by an expression of good nature, simplicity and modesty. Anna Pavlovna turned to him and, with Christian meekness expressing forgiveness for his outburst, nodded to him and said:
“I hope to see you again, but I also hope that you will change your opinions, my dear Monsieur Pierre,” she said.
When she told him this, he did not answer anything, he just leaned over and showed everyone his smile again, which said nothing, except this: “Opinions are opinions, and you see what a kind and nice fellow I am.” Everyone, including Anna Pavlovna, involuntarily felt it.
Prince Andrey went out into the hall and, putting his shoulders to the footman who was throwing his cloak on him, listened indifferently to the chatter of his wife with Prince Hippolyte, who also came out into the hall. Prince Hippolyte stood next to the pretty pregnant princess and stubbornly looked straight at her through his lorgnette.
“Go, Annette, you’ll catch a cold,” said the little princess, saying goodbye to Anna Pavlovna. “C"est arrete, [It’s decided],” she added quietly.
Anna Pavlovna had already managed to talk with Lisa about the matchmaking that she had started between Anatole and the little princess’s sister-in-law.
“I hope for you, dear friend,” said Anna Pavlovna, also quietly, “you will write to her and tell me, comment le pere envisagera la chose.” Au revoir, [How the father will look at the matter. Goodbye] - and she left the hall.
Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, tilting his face close to her, began to tell her something in a half-whisper.
Two footmen, one the princess, the other his, waiting for them to finish speaking, stood with a shawl and a riding coat and listened to their incomprehensible French conversation with such faces as if they understood what was being said, but did not want to show it. The princess, as always, spoke smiling and listened laughing.
“I’m very glad that I didn’t go to the envoy,” said Prince Ippolit: “boredom... It’s a wonderful evening, isn’t it, wonderful?”
“They say that the ball will be very good,” answered the princess, raising her mustache-covered sponge. - All beautiful women societies will be there.
– Not everything, because you won’t be there; not all,” said Prince Hippolyte, laughing joyfully, and, grabbing the shawl from the footman, even pushed him and began to put it on the princess.
Out of awkwardness or deliberately (no one could make out this) he did not lower his arms for a long time when the shawl was already put on, and seemed to be hugging a young woman.
Seed propagation in the garden strawberries we are used to, unfortunately, leads to the appearance of less productive plants and weaker bushes. But another type of these sweet berries, alpine strawberries, can be successfully grown from seeds. Let's learn about the main advantages and disadvantages of this crop, consider the main varieties and features of agricultural technology. The information presented in this article will help you decide whether it is worth allocating a place for it in the berry garden.
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Despite such a traditional name - dwarf birch - this tree is not at all similar to the slender sisters that inhabit deciduous forests and groves. Dwarf birch is a shrub that grows in the tundra. It climbs quite high and feels comfortable only in swamps or on mountain slopes, at an altitude of about half a kilometer above sea level. The dwarf birch spreads along the ground, like periwinkle, but at the same time it is a full-fledged bush that looks rather pretentious and clumsy. However, this does not interfere landscape designers have a special love for the representative of the northern flora and use it in design country houses and personal plots.
In Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug dwarf birch is called “ernik”, which means shrub in Nenets.
In the mountains, where dwarf birch is accustomed to growing, it spreads along the ground, thereby creating impenetrable thickets. And this is not an exaggeration: the birch tree is intertwined with its friend - dwarf willow, the same creeping bush as she herself. As a result, entire thickets appear on the ground surface. Low, but completely irresistible. It is not possible for a person to step over or walk on them.
Yornik slate (another name for dwarf birch), despite its eccentric appearance, is part of the Birch family. The bush rarely grows tall. The maximum recorded height is 1.2 m, but such an indicator is very rare. Most often, the yernik is removed from the ground by 20 cm, maximum - by 60 cm. The main characteristics of the tundra baby are listed below.
Yornik, due to the climatic conditions in which it lives, grows extremely slowly. Scientists have deduced variety Golden Treasure, which is not only not afraid of frost, but also easily grows in soil that is excessively waterlogged. True, the plant is afraid of drought and can easily tolerate only short-term heat.
You can bring a dwarf birch home from a trip. It cannot be said that this plant is very common in our latitudes; it can be found in garden center It won't be entirely easy. Therefore, if there is an opportunity to bring a living souvenir home, take advantage of it. Another option is to buy birchberry seeds and propagate it yourself. However, perhaps, in a specialized garden center in your city, a representative of the tundra flora will still be found, thereby simplifying the implementation of your planned landscape project.
Landing algorithm
The first few months after planting, the birch tree must be watered abundantly, doing this often and regularly and in no case allowing the soil to dry out. If next year the summer is too dry, regular spraying of shoots and leaves will need to be added to watering. If possible and willing, the soil around the birch tree should be mulched. Mulch in in this case can speak at least sawdust, even crushed stone, even bark.
The main thing is that in dry conditions summer days this coating will protect dwarf plant from too rapid evaporation of water.
Fertilize the birch tree twice a year. The first time was in the spring. For this purpose, use the fertilizer “Nitroammofoska”. The second time the birch tree is fed in summer period. Repeated application of fertilizing is carried out using a complex preparation.
IN middle lane The dwarf birch tree lives well. The climatic conditions are ideal, thanks to which the seeds have time to fully ripen. According to experts, it is necessary to sow the seed collected from the tundra baby either immediately after collection, or at the end of autumn, after the first frost. Ernik can also be propagated in a simpler and effective way- vegetative. To implement it you will need several branches cut from the bush.
Algorithm for cutting dwarf birch
As you can see, everything is as simple as two and two. A representative of the tundra flora easily takes root in our latitudes and develops faster than in its frozen homeland.
Yornik in landscape design occurs infrequently. The reason is simple: not everyone knows how to work with it and what plants it should be combined with. Below we list just a few options for using tundra babies, each of which is beautiful in its own way.
Alpine slide. If you are a fan of alpine hills (or rockeries), if you strive to recreate not only the landscape, but also the vegetation of a mountain slope, be sure to include the “Dwarf Birch” item in your shopping list. Designers often make it one of the centers of such compositions. The foliage of the plant turns into an amazing background, which is colored green in summer and glows with the colors of withering in autumn.
Japanese kindergarten. A rocky garden, replete with large pebbles and cobblestones, will look even more beautiful if you plant one or more birch trees in it. In compositions of this kind, experts recommend combining it with heather.
Near a pond. If there is a small artificial reservoir on the site, for example, a pond or stream, dwarf birch will be able to simulate the miraculous nature of this landscape. It is worth supplementing the birch tree near an artificial reservoir with the following plants:
Tundra corner. If there is a place on your garden plot that in the spring turns into a swamp due to flooding and where you do not risk planting garden crops, use it for decorative purposes. For example, recreate a small tundra by decorating a flooded location with mosses, cranberries, birch and ferns dwarf varieties. Among such neighbors, a baby birch with its intricately curved shoots will look more than organic.
Another option for using birch tree in landscape design is creating a hedge. True, in this case the bush will need to be trimmed regularly so that it branches and thereby forms, albeit a low, but very dense living fence.
Dwarf birch (Betula nana in Latin, or dwarf birch in the people) is a rounded shrub; the largest specimens reach 1.2 meters in height. Thickets of dwarf birch in wildlife can be found in the Northern Hemisphere. The homeland of dwarf birch is the tundra. Due to harsh climatic conditions, only dwarf trees, low-growing, but very resilient, like all tundra plants. The lifespan of this tree is up to 120 years.
Dwarf birch is found in the wild in the northern regions of Russia.
The dwarf birch is a close relative of the common birch, familiar to everyone. But visually this plant is very different and does not in any way resemble a slender, tall beauty with a white trunk. A fancifully curved, creeping decorative birch can become the highlight of a plant composition in a garden or greenhouse; a bonsai made from this plant also looks great. Considering that dwarf birch grows in northern latitudes, minimal care is required for this crop.
Where else do dwarf trees grow? Low-growing birch can be found in Siberia, Yakutia, North Korea and Japan, North America, Canada, Kamchatka. Also, dwarf birch can grow in mountainous areas: at an altitude of up to 850 meters in Scotland, and on hills up to 2000 meters high in the Alps.
Dwarf birch is a highly branched or creeping shrub. Its shoots are thin and flexible. Depending on the habitat, the shoots can rise up or spread along the ground, like many tundra plants. Miniature specimens are often completely hidden in lichen thickets, with only bright green leaves visible on the surface. Spreading into different sides, they are capable of densely covering an area of 3 square meters.
The small leaves reach only 1.5 cm in length and range from 1 to 2 cm in width. The leaves are very bright, dark green on top and bright green below, round in shape. In autumn they turn yellow and red.
The dwarf birch blooms with miniature yellow-green earrings, also very bright and rich color. After pollination, the earrings begin to dry, then fall apart into scales and reveal the fruit - tiny nuts up to 2 mm long, brown in color with two wings on the sides. The plant blooms in May, until early summer, and bears fruit until the end of June.
Dwarf birch is one of the deciduous trees, used to create bonsai.
Birch bark has a variety of shades and textures; it can be smooth, cork, or embossed. It is thanks to the bark that the dwarf plant looks so decorative and attractive. The brown, gray, brown rugged trunk contrasts beautifully with the bright foliage.
In the vastness of the tundra, this shrub-like dwarf tree is almost the only decoration. Its neighbors are lichens, mosses, and dwarf willows. This is a winter-hardy plant that can tolerate even very low temperatures without problems; it will not be very comfortable in a dry and warm room. You need to remember this when planning to grow dwarf birch at home.
Reproduction of dwarf birch is carried out in two ways:
The plant can be transferred to the ground both in spring and autumn - the seedling will survive the winter. The shrub will take root in any soil, but if possible, preference should be given to sandy loam and light loamy compositions. After planting, the soil must be fertilized and watered well.
Large seedlings with bare roots require special care. If watering is insufficient, it may begin to wither and dry out from the top. In this case, the dried tip is cut off by five to seven centimeters, and the plant is transplanted into more moist soil, not forgetting about fertilizing and watering.
You can plant a young plant in the ground both in spring and autumn.
The plant needs to be fertilized in early spring and in the middle of summer. Peat, humus, phosphorus-potassium can be applied as fertilizer. mineral mixtures. You can also use:
If there is a need for autumn feeding, then it is better to use “nitroammophoska”.
As for watering, immediately after planting the soil should be moistened abundantly for three to four days. You cannot forget about regularly watering the plant. Behind summer season it can absorb up to 250 liters of water. And if the summer is hot and dry, this volume increases. To saturate the soil with oxygen, it must be periodically loosened to a depth of no more than three centimeters.
To fertilize dwarf birch, various organic fertilizers are used, as well as ammonium nitrate.
This crop is quite sensitive to various pests, although not susceptible to severe climatic conditions. You should be wary of:
To prevent insect attacks, the plant is treated with fungicidal and insecticidal solutions once or twice a year.
One of the most dangerous pests for birch is the silkworm.
In Siberia, Yakutia and other northern countries, the dwarf birch is perhaps the only green tree. Young shoots of this plant are used as feed for livestock. Local residents use larger and thicker branches to light stoves.
This shrub is cultivated mainly for decorative purposes. This tree will be a great addition to landscape composition, will decorate any personal plot or a city park, rock garden or alpine slide. Birch harmonizes beautifully with short trees coniferous trees and bushes.
