Old field birch

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Old Field Birch

Latin Name: Betula populifolia

location: northeastern United States and northeastern Canada

The Old Field Birch, also referred as Betula populifolia, is normally found around northeastern United States and northeastern Canada. It usually looks like deciduous small to medium tree, making it a very interesting plant! In the summer, a special form of foliage appears, more or less alternate, simple leaves, 2" to 3.5" long leaves and in the automn its foliage then is yellow. The Old Field Birch (Betula populifolia) grows flowers that are blooms in April, but catkins visible prior to bloom and grows fruits that are small nutlets held in cylindrical catkins, 0.75" to 1.25" long. Its bark is very interesting, where we see reddish brown, thin and smooth on young trunks on it. An important thing to know on the way it is cultured is that very easy to grow An inconvenient with the Old Field Birch can be that birch leaf miner is very disfiguring to the foliage and major limitation. It does not kill the plant however A way to identify a Betula populifolia having its acuminate leaf tips. The Old Field Birch's reproduction is done in a special way since it is done by seed; cold or light will break dormancy

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