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Dwarf Arctic Birch

The birch is the only tree that survives in the High Arctic tundra -

This ground-hugging dwarf birch tree (Betula nana) was many years old but had only managed to spread to a diameter of 60 cm and a height of 10cm

 

 

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Uploaded on July 31, 2008
Taken on June 30, 2008