Birch Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Birch (Betula pendula), the silver birch or European white birch, is a slender deciduous tree of the birch family, Betulaceae, native across Europe and into Siberia, Turkey, and the Caucasus, and planted as an ornamental in North America. It grows 15 to 25 meters with a white, papery trunk marked by black diamond-shaped fissures and a light crown of thin, drooping, warty branchlets that gives the species its name. The leaves are small, triangular, and doubly toothed, sticky with resin when they unfold in spring and clear yellow in autumn; the flowers are catkins. Young leaves taste faintly bitter. We extract the dried leaf.