Silver birch
Betula pendula
In Dutch: Ruwe berk
TreesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 15 to 20 m, sometimes 30 m
- Spread
- 8 to 12 m
- Full grown after
- 15 to 20 years
- Sun
- Sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Dry to moderately moist, poor to moderately rich
- Water
- Average: water it in long dry spells
- Maintenance
- Low: no pruning needed
- Flowers
- April and May, yellow catkins
- For bees
- Little: some pollen, April and May
- Hay fever
- Very strongly allergenic, April and May
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn, turning yellow first
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- No
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.70 to €2.50 each, 60-100 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- About €90 to €112 each, 200-300 cm, in a pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- April to May
- Fruit
- August to September