Horsebridge Wood: Appalachian

Here, the Eastern deciduous woodland is justifiably famous for its 'Fall Colour'. Horsebridge Wood has a particularly fine showing of the USA's east coast cherry birch (Betula lenta). When its leaves are pressed, they give out a strong smell of wintergreen. There is also the widest variety of deciduous tree species in North America, with hickory, oak, maple and beech, joined by conifers at higher altitudes and to the north. The rarest tree in the province is the Virginia round-leaf birch, first discovered in 1914, then thought to be extinct until a stand of just fifteen trees was found in 1975. There is a specimen on the Birch Trail in Bethlehem Wood.

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