Betula ermanii 'Mount Zao Purple' - 12 litre (Birch)

Common name: Erman's birch

Description: A rare and striking birch grown for its unusual bark: a base of misty, deep chocolate-purple heavily overlaid with copper-orange patches and prominent creamy horizontal lenticel banding. Glossy green leaves turn a reliable orange in autumn.

Other benefits: elegant year-round form, attractive peeling bark, good autumn colour, excellent specimen or small-garden tree, exceptionally unusual bark colouring rarely seen in cultivation

Wildlife attraction: birds

Height & spread (approx.) at 10 years: 5m x 3m

Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil pH: neutral to acid

Moisture: moist but well-drained

Winter hardiness: fully hardy to below -25°C