Curly birch

The annual rings are wavelike and irregular, with brown curly-grained wood tissue cells often exhibiting a V pattern in the cross-sectional view.

The wood of curly birch is dense and very heavy, when freshly felled it can rise to 930 kg/m3, and at 12% moisture approx.

The irregular bud formation connected to curly-grainedness results in abundant branching and bushy habit among curly birches.

Curly birch wood is used for furniture, knife shafts, and in woodturning for bowls and pens.

In addition to the above, curly birch is to be found in the Russia (Karelia, Ingria, and some other western areas), in the Baltic countries, and in Belarus.