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Birch
Betula nigra
Distinguishing Features: Creamy orange shedding bark, male catkins grouped in threes, shiny leaves with large and small teeth
- Type: Deciduous
- Form at maturity: Pyramidal when young, but matures to a more rounded shape typically growing 40-70 feet tall.
- Leaf: Leathery, diamond-shaped, medium to dark green leaves, 1.5-3.5 inches long with doubly toothed margins, turn yellow in fall.
- Flower: Monoecious flowers appear in drooping, brownish male catkins and smaller, upright, greenish female catkins.
- Bark: Young trunk and branches have thin, shiny red-brown bark, older portions develop creamy orange bark, on very old trunks and branches bark turn brown and develops ridges and furrows in a somewhat platy fashion
- Fruit or Seed: The fruit is elongated, 1 to 3 inches long catkin of small nutlets
- Other:
Betula nigra form
Betula nigra leaf
