3b Sweet Birch is a little known tree that has excellent potential for landscape use. It has an upright pyramidal form when young, becoming rounded with age.
Foliage is an attractive clean medium green and develops an outstanding clear yellow fall color.
The smooth bark of young trees is dark reddish brown to nearly black and has prominent horizontal lenticels, resembling cherry bark. The twigs have a distinctive wintergreen odor when bruised. It is resistant to bronze birch borer, an insect pest which frequently damages white barked birches. Sweet Birch is native to the eastern United States. Full sun or partial shade.