Betula lenta (sweet birch, also known as black birch, cherry birch, mahogany birch, or spice birch) is a species of birch native to eastern North America.

Betula lenta, or Sweet Birch, is a deciduous, pyramidal shaped tree, maturing into a more rounded shape that may grow 60 to 70 feet tall.

Sweet birch (Betula lenta), also commonly referred to as black birch or cherry birch, was at one time the only source of oil of wintergreen. It is the aroma of wintergreen emanating from crushed leaves and broken twigs to which this birch owes its common name, sweet.

Aromatic and long-lived (100 years or more), Betula lenta (Sweet Birch) is a single-trunked, medium-sized deciduous tree of conical habit in youth, becoming oval to rounded with age. Its ascending branches are covered with ovate, serrated, shiny leaves, 2-6 in. long (5-15 cm).

Cherry birch is also variously called black birch for its dark, shiny bark, and sweet birch for its wintergreen-smelling twigs. Saplings of this tree are often among the earliest colonizers of newly logged ground in southern New England.

Betula lenta, commonly called sweet birch, cherry birch, or black birch, is a medium to large, deciduous tree native to moist, cool, forested slopes as well as rockier, more exposed areas from the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada to the southern extent of the Appalachian Mountains. Mature trees will reach up to 75' tall in the ...

Broadleaf deciduous tree, to 75 ft (23 m) tall in its habitat, but probably only 50 ft (15 m) in cultivation, with a spread of about 40 ft (13 m), pyramidal and dense when young, when mature rounded and irregular.

Genus: Betula Species: B. lenta Hardiness Zone: 4 to 7 Height: 40 to 55 ft Width: 35 to 45 ft . Common characteristics: Sweet birch has a brownish-black almost cherry-like, scaly bark and reddish-brown stems. It has a conical shape when young …

Nov 25, 2024 · The Black Birch Tree (Betula lenta) is a cornerstone of temperate forest ecosystems. Its ecological roles—ranging from soil enrichment to wildlife support—underscore its importance in promoting biodiversity and environmental stability.

Male catkins 2 to 3 in. long. Fruiting catkins 1 in. or rather more long, 1 ⁄ 2 in. in diameter, scarcely stalked; scales not downy, the lateral lobes rather wider than the middle one. Native of eastern N. America, where it yields a valuable timber; introduced in 1759, according to Aiton.