Description

Family:  Betulaceae
Zone: 7 – 9
Natural Range: China; 
Soil:  Average, moist, humus rich
Light: part shade, sun
Height: 20 – 40
Bloom Time:  May to June
Attributes: Deciduous. Purplish brown branchlets.  Brown grey bark.  Ovate-lanceolate leaves with deep veins emerge in bronze tones changing to olive green.  Monoecius catkin-like flower bracts to almost a foot long. 
Notes: One of the most attractive and hard to find recently introduced trees.