SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Creative impression of Silver birch (Betula pendula) foliage, Creagellachie NNR, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

Guy Edwardes / Trees reflected in Loch Tummel, Perthshire, Scotland, UK. October, 2014.

Bernard Castelein / Birch tree (Betula pendula) covered in hoar frost, Groot Schietveld, Wuustwezel, Belgium, December 2007.

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trunks in snow, Muritz-National Park, Germany, January.

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) with Heather (Calluna vulgaris) in full bloom, Reicherskreuzer Heide, Nature Reserve Schlaubetal, Germany, August.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Silver birch (Betula pendula) woodland in autumn, Craigellachie NNR, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, October.

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Fallen Silver Birch (Betula pendula) leaves on Sphagnum Moss (Sphagnum capillifolium). Glen Etive, Scotland, UK.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / View looking up to Silver birch (Betula pendula) canopy in Spring, Craigellachie NNR, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, May 2011. Did you know? Silver birches provide food and habitat for over 300 inverteb...

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Windswept Silver birch trees (Betula pendula) silhouetted against sky, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, November. Did you know? Silver birch trees can produce millions of tiny seeds every year.

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Fallen Silver birch leaves (Betula sylvestris) and foam swirling in river eddy, Glen Affric, Highland, Scotland, UK, February

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Trunks of Silver birch trees (Betula pendula) in autumn woodland, Rothiemurchus Forest, Cairngorms NP, Highlands, Scotland, UK, October

Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Silver birch (Betula pendula) with trunk covered in moss in natural woodland, Beinn Eighe NNR, Highlands, NW Scotland, UK, May