Yellow birch has white sapwood and light reddish-brown heartwood. Sweet birch has light-colored sapwood and dark brown heartwood tinged with red. 13.0 5.4 B. papyrifera var. No information available at this time. Birch veneer goes into plywood used for flush doors, furniture, paneling, radio and television cabinets, aircraft, and other specialty uses.
Paper birch is used for turned products, including spools, bobbins, small handles, and toys.
Also used for pulp wood, fuel wood, turnery, distillation products, toothpicks, ice cream sticks and tongue depressors. Dry kiln schedules for commercial woods-temperate and tropical. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. Sonderman, D.L. 1973. Birch, an American wood.