This Silver Birch was found on the outskirts of a football pitch where a group of Silver Birch had grown close to each other and other trees. Often a slender, fast-growing deciduous tree with a narrow, tapering crown. As they get older they form a weeping habit especially if growing in a open, uncrowded situation.
The leaves are up to 7cm long, triangular and pointed with large teeth separated by smaller teeth. Thin and smooth when mature.
The branches are ascending in young trees but twigs and shoots are pendulous, slender and smooth, mostly brown and pitted with many white resin glands.
The bark is a very pronounced silvery white colour but as the tree gets older it becomes deeply fissured and often flaking away from the trunk. A pattern of black diamonds is often seen on the trunks in older trees.
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