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Plant Details

Accepted name: 
Betula lenta L. [Betulaceae]
Source: 
World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant: 
Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies: 
2
Non-scientific name: Class of name: Medicinal source:
black birch Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
bouleau Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bouleau d'amérique Other ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
bétula dulce Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
checkerberry Other Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
cherry birch Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
downy birch Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gaultheria oil Other Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
hairy birch Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
körsbärsbjörk Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
methyl salicylate Other U.S. Pharmacopoeia USP 39 (2016)
sweet birch Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
ISO 4720:2009 Essential Oils: Nomenclature (2009)
Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)
U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019)
white birch Other U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
wintergreen Other Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
wintergreen oil Other Food Chemicals Codex, 11th edn. (USP, 2018)
Food Chemicals Codex, 6th edn. (USP, 2008)
zuckerbirke Other GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)