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The Japanese Birch also called the Asian white birch is regarded as one of the most pest resistant white-barked birches . The Japanese birch has shown great resistance to the white birch borer and to the leaf miner . The leaves and shape of the Japanese Birch is very close to the paper birch . The main visual difference between the paper birch and the Japanese birch is the white or paper birch has exfoliating bark and the Japanese does not . They both have the beautiful chalky white bark . The cultivar ' Whitespire Senior ' is micro-propagated from the original tree . The tree tolerates slightly alkaline soil conditions . Birch are found most commonly mixed with white cedar or arborvitae and hemlock in low lying areas in the upper Midwest . As with most Birch the Whitespire Birch loves wet ground and full sun . Given enough water and fertilizer a Japanese Birch can grow 2-4 ' per year . We have birch saplings and seedlings of white or paper , river and whitespire or Japanese white .