YOU ARE BUYING 10 RIVER BIRCH SEEDS
(BETULA NIGRA).
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.
SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE UNUSUAL AND EXOTIC INDOOR/OUTDOOR PLANTS. BONSAI, PALMS, BAMBOOS, TREES, WATER PLANTS ETC.
BUYER PAYS P/P
U.K. P/P .65P.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS P/P.95P
BUY AS MANY SEEDS FROM OUR AUCTIONS AS YOU LIKE AND ONLY PAY ONE POSTAGE CHARGE
***INTERNATIONAL BUYERS NOCHEX OR PAYPAL ONLY***
HAPPY BIDDING :0)
