Family: Betulaceae
Origin: native
Mature trees can reach 30m in height, forming a light canopy with elegant, drooping branches.
Birch, Downy
£10.00 ex.VAT
Description
Betula pubescens
Mature trees can reach 30m in height, forming a light canopy with elegant, drooping branches. Downy birch is more upright than silver birch and the bark is browner in colour with more obvious horizontal grooves and lacking the papery quality of the silver birch. Identified in winter by bark which is white all year round and twigs that are softly hairy to the touch.
Downy birch has both male and female flowers (catkins) on the same tree. The male catkins are formed in the autumn and will remain on the tree all winter – only opening in April or May. The female catkins appear in spring with the new shoots.
Additional information
| Plant Size | 60/80cm |
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