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  • The next most prized are red caps, their stems flecked with black, trailed closely by birch-tree gray caps on long, skinny legs.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • As we approach the far end of the field, just before the forest begins, we come to an island of birch trees surrounded by blueberry thickets, a good spot for birch-tree mushrooms.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • As we approach the far end of the field, just before the forest begins, we come to an island of birch trees surrounded by blueberry thickets, a good spot for birch-tree mushrooms.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • The next most prized are red caps, their stems flecked with black, trailed closely by birch-tree gray caps on long, skinny legs.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • There are only a couple of birch-tree mushrooms, scattered on the bottom, and a few commoners, too big and old even for salting.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • There are only a couple of birch-tree mushrooms, scattered on the bottom, and a few commoners, too big and old even for salting.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • The northern exposures of the slopes play an important role where pine and birch-tree prevail.

    Golden Mountains of Altai, Russian Federation 2009

  • Her seat beneath the birch-tree was vacant, though the day was pleasant and the sun was high.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • But the impression was only momentary, and whenever he looked steadily to the point where he conceived the figure appeared, it always proved that he had mistaken some natural object, a white crag, or the trunk of a decayed birch-tree with its silver bark, for the appearance in question.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Church bells tolled out across the plowed fields; a wild woodcock darted across the sky, disappearing in the russet and gold leaves of a birch-tree clump.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

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