$125.00
Betula
pendula
Ornamental
Betula (Birch)
Moderate.
Bright green, triangular leaves with doubly serrate margins. Butter yellow in autumn.
Ornamental, papery white bark that exfoliates in sheets. Becoming black fissured on the lower trunk when older.
Small winged nutlets borne in a pendulous ‘cone’ (a strobilus) that sheds in autumn.
Columnar, fastigiate, tending to be narrowly ovate when older. The outer branches slightly incurve and intertwine.
Small flowers borne in catkins. Male and female flowers are separate on the same plant (monoecious).
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