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Survives zone 3 through 8
Spring sap tapped for syrup, and classically for wintergreen-flavoured birch beer.
- Hardiness
- Zone 3 to 8
- Habit
- Tree
- Edible part
- Sap
- Ripens
- Early spring at the thaw — a short 2–3 week sap flow
- Mature size
- Large tree to ~20 m — not containerable
- Light
- Full sun to partial
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (lime-tolerant)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Sap
- Years to fruit
- 3–4 yrs
- Pollination
- Wind-pollinated, monoecious catkins — irrelevant to a sap crop