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River Birch
Latin Name:
Betula nigra
location:
eastern United States from southern New England to Florida and west to Minnesota and Kansas
The River Birch, known in its Latin name to be Betula nigra, can be found more or less around eastern United States, from southern New England to Florida and west to Minnesota and Kansas.. It usually looks like deciduous, making it a very interesting plant! In the summer, its leafs are changing looking like lustrous medium or dark green and in the automn its foliage is specially yellow. The River Birch (Betula nigra) has flowers that are catkins and grows fruits, characterized as catkins of small nutlets. It has a beautiful Bark, where we can see young trunk and branches have thin, shiny red-brown bark on it. An interesting fact about its culture is that makes best growth on moist river bottom soil, but has proven to be adaptable to dried sites However, a bad thing with the River Birch can be that chlorosis on high pH soil A way to identify a Betula nigra with its creamy orange exfoliating bark. The River Birch's propagation is uncommon since it performs it by seed
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