| Description | A cultivar of the native River Birch with bark more similar to the Paper Birch. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average to moist |
| Soil & Site | average to moist |
| Temperature | heat tolerant |
| Flowers | forms catkins |
| Fruit | nutlets in pendulous catkins |
| Leaves | yellow fall color |
| Stems | bark varies from tan to creamy white to parchment white |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | 50 plus feet tall with 1/2 to 3/4 spread, pyramid oval shape |
| Maintenance | Resistant to Bronze birch Borer and Birch Leaf Minor. |
| Cultivar Origin | In the early 1970's this clone was discovered by Earl Cully of Jackson Illinois in a St. Louis suburb. |
| Author's Notes | I have seen many mature Heritage Birch trees. The bark gets very ragged looking at this stage. But still a good plant because of its ability to grow in hotter and less acid soils. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #93-North American Landscape Trees (Arthur Lee Jacobson) |
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