RIVER BIRCH**GARDEN OR BONSAI**10 SEEDS

RIVER BIRCH IS AN ORNAMENTAL SHADE TREE, PRIZED FOR ITS FLAKY, ORANGE ORNAMENTAL BARK AND RIPPLING FOLIAGE IN THE BREEZE.

RIVER BIRCH HAS A RAPID GROWTH RATE, EVEN IN DRIER SOILS.

IT CAN BE GROWN AS A SINGLE TRUNKED TREE WHICH GROWS TO A HEIGHT OF 70 FEET, OR GROWN AS A MULTI-TRUNKED REACHING 50 UP TO FEET IN HEIGHT OR MAY BE KEPT SMALLER BY PRUNING 

BONSAI SPECIALISTS ARE STARTING TO GROW THIS AS A BONSAI SPECIMEN BECAUSE OF THE BARK COLOURS AND PAPERY SCALES.

FLOWER: PREFORMED AMENTS: MALE NEAR THE END OF THE TWIG WHICH ARE 2-3 INCHES LONG. FEMALE: CATKINS 1/4-1/2 INCHES LONG, UPRIGHT FLOWERING IN EARLY SPRING.

FRUIT: CONE LIKE, WITH MANY HAIRY SCALES, 1-1 1/2 INCHES LONG.

LEAF: ALTERNATE, PINNATELY-VEINED,

BARK: SMOOTH ON YOUNG TREES, SALMON-RUST-CINNAMON COLOUR. AS THE TREE MATURES IT DEVELOPS PAPERY SCALES, WITH SEVERAL COLOURS CREAM TO BROWN-ORANGE LATER DEVELOPING COARSE SCALES.

RIVER BIRCH PREFERS MOIST TO WET, RICH SOILS. IT WILL TOLERATE DRIER SOILS BUT WITH SUBSEQUENT LEAF DROP.

PREFERS: FULL SUN TO PARTIAL SUN.

FULLY HARDY DOWN TO ZONE 3

FULL SOWING INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED.

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