Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis)

Family: Betulaceae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Bloom Color: Green, Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Late spring, Mid spring. Form: Oval.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Sap/Syrup, Bark/Inner Bark

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

sweet flavour. — Inner bark - cooked or dried and ground into a powder and used with cereals in making bread.; Inner bark is generally only seen as a famine food, used when other forms of starch are not available or are in short supply.; Sap - raw or cooked.; The sap is harvested in early spring, before the leaves unfurl, by tapping the trunk.

Habitat & North American Range

Usually found in moist well-drained soils in rich woodlands on lower slopes, it is also found in cool marshlands in the south of its range. (Zone 3, Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7)