Birch

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A birch is a tree that appears similar to a common oak in terms of height and leaves, but with light bark and pale wood. It is most commonly found in birch forest biomes and a regular forest. Super birches are tall birch trees found only in old growth birch forest biomes and cannot be grown with saplings. As with oaks and cherries, a birch tree grown near flowers can generate with a bee nest attached.

Birches come in two different variants:

• Shorter birches can be grown by the player using birch saplings and are found in forest, birch forest, and dark forest biomes.
• A taller, rare tree that can only be found in old growth birch forests and rarely in meadows.

Birches that are grown from saplings grow to be 5 to 7 blocks tall, while birches in the old growth birch forest biome can generate with trunks up to 13 blocks in height.

The birch variants spawn naturally in the indicated biomes, ordered by density.

Any type of birch tree naturally generated in forests and dark forests (and variants) places leaf litter on the ground.

These items can be obtained from birches:

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  Bee Nest (if present on a tree near flowers)
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  Birch Leaves (harvested with shears)
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  Birch Log (harvested with any tool including hands)
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  Birch Planks (created from a log in the inventory crafting grid)
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  Birch Sapling (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)
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  Stripped Birch Log (created by using an axe on a log)
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  Stick (chance of dropping when breaking leaves)

Birch saplings can be planted on:

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  Dirt
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  Grass Block
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  Coarse Dirt
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  Podzol
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  Mycelium
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  Rooted Dirt
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  Moss Block
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  Pale Moss Block
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  Farmland
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  Mud
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  Muddy Mangrove Roots

Only normal birches can be grown from saplings. Tall birches only generate naturally in the world.

Birches require a 3×3 column of unobstructed space at least 6 blocks above the sapling to grow (7 blocks including the sapling itself). Additionally, birches require 5×5 layers without obstruction for the top 3 layers of its final height. No horizontal clearance is needed at the base of the tree (a sapling planted in a hole 1 block deep can still grow).

A birch grown from a sapling and within 2 blocks of a flower has a 5% chance of having a bee nest containing 2–3 bees.

• 👁 Fallen birch
  
  Fallen birch
• 👁 Stump with log and mushrooms
  
  Stump with log and mushrooms

A fallen birch may consist of a single upright log, or a stump. Logs lying on their side are often found 1–2 blocks from the stump. They occasionally have mushrooms on top.

A fallen birch has a log length of 5–8 blocks. A fallen tall birch has a log length of 5–15 blocks. The stump is never covered in vines.

Birch leaves do not follow the foliage color rules that cause the trees to appear in different colors in different biomes. Birch leaves are always the same color regardless of the biome. In Bedrock Edition, however, they turn white as other leaves do during snowfall in snowy biomes.

Java Edition:

Issues relating to "Birch" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 👁 A fallen birch tree.
  
  A fallen birch tree.
• 👁 An acacia tree that grew through a birch tree.
  
  An acacia tree that grew through a birch tree.
• 👁 Tall birch trees in a old growth birch forest biome.
  
  Tall birch trees in a old growth birch forest biome.

• 👁 A lone birch tree in a cavern.
  
  A lone birch tree in a cavern.
• 👁 A birch tree that generated on a stone block over a lava pit.
  
  A birch tree that generated on a stone block over a lava pit.
• 👁 A birch tree on the sand, caused when the dirt it was on was replaced by sand.
  
  A birch tree on the sand, caused when the dirt it was on was replaced by sand.
• 👁 A fallen birch where most of the logs are higher than the base.
  
  A fallen birch where most of the logs are higher than the base.