Betula albosinensis ‘China Rose’

A relatively new form of this superb species, selected, as so many good ones are, by Kenneth Ashburner. Making a fast growing medium sized tree, the bark on this is a really good saturated coppery-orange-red, with only a little white bloom when young. At its best close planted as a group of three, or cut back hard to form a multi-stem, but just one is pretty marvellous.