photo of the close-up view on a wide-grown canopy of a large birch tree on the peatland Hijkerveld in North Netherlands, 2012. Because thew birch has plenty of space and light, the crown grows very large and wide on the peat, favorite soil ground for birches because it is rather dry, loose and sandy; free landscape photo Drenthe Netherlands, by Fons Heijnsbroek, in Spring 2012.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch" title="User:FotoDutch">Fons Heijnsbroek</a>
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>