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Betulaceae, or the Birch Family, includes two genera of trees and shrubs, the birches and the alders. The family is often treated as also including the Corylaceae: hazels, hornbeams and hop-hornbeams.
Example species of the two genera are:
- Alnus - Alders
- Alnus glutinosa - Black alder
- Alnus incana - Speckled alder
- Alnus rubra - Red alder
- Alnus viridis - Green or Mountain alder
- Betula - Birches
- Betula pendula - Silver birch
- Betula papyrifera - Paper birch
- Betula nigra - River birchJohnsonville, South Carolina Johnsonville, South Carolina River birch Betula nigra is a common small tree of flood plains or swamps in eastern North America, growing to about 25 meters at most. It is usually too contorted and knotty to be of value as a ti
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Betulaceae - Corylaceae - FagaceaeCastanea Chestnuts Castanopsis Chrysolepis Golden chinkapin Colombobalanus Fagus Beeches Formanodendron Lithocarpus Tanbark oaks Nothofagus Southern beeches Quercus Oaks Trigonobalanus The family Fagaceae or beech family is characterized by alternate leav - Ticodendraceae - CasuarinaceaeCasuarinaceae The equisetoid twigs of the Common Ironwood Casuarina equisetifolia . Plantae : Magnoliophyta Magnoliopsida Fagales Casuarinaceae Genera Allocasuarina Casuarina Gymnostoma Casuarinaceae is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed i - JuglandaceaeWalnut family Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fagales or Juglandales Family Juglandaceae Genera Alfaroa Carya (pecan and hickory) Cyclocarya Engelhardtia (cheo) Juglans (walnut) Oreomunnia Pla - Rhoipteleaceae - Myricaceae
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