Rather rare and not often available commercially. Branches are smooth, shiny, and red-brown at maturity. Bark is dark red-brown, fissured into thick plates on older trunks. Seems quite resistant to bronze birch borer. Pyramidal when young, becoming round-headed and open at maturity.
Young twigs have a strong wintergreen flavor when chewed.
40 x 30 Hardy Zone 3. A popular white barked cultivar with a graceful, weeping form. Rarely reaches maturity because the bronze birch borer attacks it while still young. Expect to replace it every few years. Several cultivars are available.