It is a highly heat tolerant deciduous tree.
River birch tree texas.
Red birch leaf type.
Although it is extrememly heat tolerant in dry years it will shed.
Its leaves turn yellow in the fall before they drop.
River birch black birch red birch water birch betula nigra.
It grows in the wetlands of the pineywoods and the post oak savannah and is best adapted to moist soils.
Its diamond shaped double toothed leaves produce an erect or spreading canopy that covers.
The ornamental river birch tree favors moist soils and is typically found growing along the banks of streams and in swampy lowlands.
River birch s distinguishing characteristic is its outstanding peeling cinnamon colored bark.
This birch will grow one foot per year until it reaches a height of 20 feet at maturity.
Usually a medium sized tree to 40 feet tall and one or more trunks 8 to 12 in diameter but can reach heights of up to 90 feet with an oval crown of drooping branches.
River birch is a fast growing deciduous semi aquatic tree that reaches between 50 and 90 feet in height.