| Description | A native Birch tree that tolerates the poorest of soils. |
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| Pronunciation | (Bet-u-lah)(pop-uu-li-FO-lia) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-6(7) |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, tolerable |
| Soil & Site | average, tolerates many types, chlorotic in high ph soils |
| Flowers | catkins, staminate, male are longer and thinner than female |
| Fruit | small nutlets in cones |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, coarsely or doubly serrated, roughly triangular |
| Stems | bark does not easily peel, young plants reddish brown changing to a chalky white becoming dirty gray, distinct gray horizontal lines and black blotches on the stem |
| Dimensions | 30 by 10-20 feet (HS), open pyramidal growth form |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced about 1780. Mentioned being used as early as 1750 in the USA. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #66-Trees of Eastern and North central USA and Canada (Harlow), #108-Restoring American Gardens (Denise Wiles Adams) |
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