The cultivar, ‘Purpurea’ does not carry purple foliage throughout the year, only new growth is faintly purple hued and fades to green as the season progresses. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall […]

The cultivar, ‘Punctata’ have white flecks to the leaves. Cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of fruit. Gray bark is […]

‘Pinoccheo’ is quite vigorous and grows in a narrow and upright form. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of fruit. Gray bark is fluted and smooth. Leaves […]

‘Pendula Dervaesii’ is a more reliable pendant or ‘weeping’ cultivar, reaching perhaps to forty feet in height and as much as fifty or sixty feet in width. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great […]

The cultivar, ‘Pendula’ is a supposedly ‘weeping’ cultivar but does not always perform as such. Other cultivars may be a better choice for a ‘weeping’ type. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall […]

‘Monument’ takes on a very nice pyramid shape, and is otherwise true to type. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall color, and pendant, leafy-bracted racemes of fruit. Gray bark is fluted and […]

The cultivar, ‘Incisa’ grows true to type and may be confused with ‘Asplenifolia’ but has slightly smaller leaves which are also differently composed. Has deeply lobed, narrow leaves. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, […]

The cultivar, ‘Horizontalis’ grows in a more horizontally oriented position, with a fairly flat top. Found around 1900 in the nursery of Simon Louis in France. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental foliage, great fall […]

The cultivar, ‘Globosa’ is even smaller than ‘Franz Fontaine’, rarely reaching more than twenty feet in height. As suggested by it’s name, ‘Globosa’ attains a globe-like shape in maturity. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, ornamental […]

The cultivar, ‘Franz Fontaine’ is generally smaller than many cultivars, reaching perhaps to thirty-five feet and half that in width. The shape is fastigiate and grow toward a central leader. C. betulus is cultivated for its upright or pyramidal habit, […]