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alder

Any of a group of trees or shrubs belonging to the birch family, found mainly in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere and characterized by toothed leaves and catkins. (Genus Alnus, family Betulaceae.)

Sitka alder (Alnus sinuata) and red alder (A. rubra) are common to western North America.



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One of my all-time favourite trees, a native of our local rivers and canal sides, the common alder, Alnus glutinosa, would seem to be a innocuous, almost unimportant tree.
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