Finnish Decorative Ball
Collection: Commercial Connections
Object Category: Decorative Objects
Object Type: Decorations
Country: Finland
Continent: Europe
Geographic Region: Northern Europe
Materials: Wood
height: 3.5 in;
Birch twigs have been sliced diagonally to make the design on this decorative ball. Finland is the most extensively forested country in Europe. Forests cover 86 percent of its land area. There are about four and half hectares of forest to every Finn. Almost half of the volume of the timber stock consists of pine (Pinus sylvestris). The other most common species are spruce (Picea abies,) downy birch (Betula pubescens) and silver birch (Betula pendula). The Finnish forestry and forest industry are based on the use of these principal tree species which all are indigenous.
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Source: http://www.forest.fi/smyforest/foresteng.nsf/0/BE3C5576C911F822C2256F3100418AFD?Opendocument