paper birch

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A North American birch tree (Betula papyrifera) having paperlike white bark formerly used for making canoes.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See birch, 1, and canoe-birch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A North American species of birch with white bark, Betula papyrifera.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes