Plant overview
This large deciduous tree has a single or multiple trunks with creamy white peeling papery bark. The short branches form an open crown and the dark green ovate toothed leaves turn yellow-orange in autumn and the yellowish catkins appear in spring.

Hardiness zones 2 to 9

Betula papyriferais naturally found from northern USA to Canada growing in well-drained fertile sandy loams in an open sunny position and is drought tender and frost tolerant.

Canoe Birch is a large tree that is grown for its bark and growth habit. It is planted in large gardens parks as a lawn specimen and establishes in 2 to 3 years and can colonise a disturbed area quickly. It is also grown for its timber and when use as a garden ornamental it rarely reaches its mature hight.It tolerates extreme cold growing vigorously and is suitable for mountain regions. ID 1728

Note:
The hard, close- grained timber is light brown and used as lumber or paper pulp and for fuel. It has the whitest bark of the Betula species and is strongly marked by horizontal bands (raised lenticels) and peels away in thin papery layers revealing an orange inner bark.
The waterproof bark was used to make canoes by the local Indians, hence the common name 'Canoe Birch'.

Betula(BET-yoo-luh)papyrifera (p?-pi-RI-fe-ra)

Betulaceae(BE-tul-AY-see-ee)
Birch