title: Betula pubescens 'Pendula'
text: # Betula pubescens 'Pendula'
  
  Betula pubescens 'Pendula', or Weeping Downy Birch, is a weeping tree and a cultivar of Betula pubescens, the Downy Birch. It was first described by Schelle in 1903. No trees are known to survive of this cultivar.
  
  ## Description
  
  A weeping tree with a leader and with pendulous branches.
  
  ## Accessions
  
  Very little is known of this cultivar and it never seems to have been widely cultivated.
  
  ## Synonymy
  
  * Betula pubescens f. pendula Schelle in L.Beissner, E.Schelle & H.Zabel, Handb. Laubholzben.: 53 (1903), nom. nud.
  