The River Birch (betula nigra) is native to the Eastern United States
• The flowers that appear in drooping, brownish male catkins and smaller upright, greenish female catkins.
• Its salmon-pink to reddish brown bark continually exfoliates.
• Develops a cinnamon-colored bark that curls and peels (once mature), highly ornamental.
• This Birch likes the moist soil.
• One of the few heat-tolerant birches
• Yields a large number of tiny nutlets after female catkins mature, typically in May and June.
• Grows well in acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, well-drained, wet and clay soils.
• Deciduous. This does best kept outdoors.
• 8 years old.
• 14" - 16" tall.
• Suitable humidity/drip tray is recommended.
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