White Birch Syn. Paper Birch – Betula Papyrifera: Edible & Medicinal Uses of the Craftiest of Wild Plants
In Chippewa, wi’gwass’tig, white birch (Betula papyrifera) is not only edible and medicinal, but is traditionally used in many other ways from making canoes to baskets to birch bark biting. I think of it as the craftiest tree! White birch is sometimes called paper birch or canoe birch after two of its many utilizations. Edible … [Read more…]