It is a highly heat tolerant deciduous tree.
River birch tree texas.
This tree has interesting scaly bark with dark green foliage.
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.
Red birch leaf type.
It grows in the wetlands of the pineywoods and the post oak savannah and is best adapted to moist soils.
Although it is extrememly heat tolerant in dry years it will shed.
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.
Its diamond shaped double toothed leaves produce an erect or spreading canopy that covers.
River birch black birch red birch water birch betula nigra.
River birch s distinguishing characteristic is its outstanding peeling cinnamon colored bark.
The river birch tree betula nigra also referred to as red birch and black birch is native to texas growing naturally in the piney woods and post oak savannah wetland areas.