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 tree texas.
River birch is a fast growing deciduous semi aquatic tree that reaches between 50 and 90 feet in height.
It is a highly heat tolerant deciduous tree.
Its leaves turn yellow in the fall before they drop.
This birch will grow one foot per year until it reaches a height of 20 feet at maturity.
River birch s distinguishing characteristic is its outstanding peeling cinnamon colored bark.
It grows in the wetlands of the pineywoods and the post oak savannah and is best adapted to moist soils.
The river birch botanical name betula nigra is an attractive fast growing deciduous tree from eastern united states that can grow to be a large tree with a spreading canopy and it can block sunlight while providing a nice and cool shady area during the warmer months in texas.
Although it is extrememly heat tolerant in dry years it will shed.
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.
This tree has interesting scaly bark with dark green foliage.