What Trees Have White Bark?

• Pale white trees brighten a forest.Birch wood image by pioregur from Fotolia.com
  
  Trees with white bark are beautiful in nature and serve as attractive additions to a home landscape. White bark from birch trees is often used in rustic decorating, and stands of quaking aspen with white bark and yellow fall foliage grace calendar pages regularly. These trees make excellent specimen trees when proper growing conditions are available.
  
  

Paper Birch Tree

• The distinctive white bark of the birch stands out in a landscape.birch tree on yellow background image by Calin Tatu from Fotolia.com
  
  Birch trees are renowned for their attractive white bark with black markings and pale-green foliage. They are standout specimen trees in a dark-green lawn. In nature, birch trees live in the forest, where the shallow roots spread out in cool, moist soil. In suburban landscapes, birch trees do best on the east and north sides of a structure where they receive afternoon shade. Birch trees are not well suited to hot, dry areas. The paper birch (Betula papyrifera) grows in USDA plant hardiness zones 2 through 7 and is appreciated for smooth white bark, pale-green leaves and golden-yellow fall foliage. The paper birch grows 50 to 70 feet tall and spreads to 35 feet wide.
  
  

Quaking Aspen

• The quaking aspen offers brilliant fall color.aspen grove image by Carbonbrain from Fotolia.com
  
  The quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is found throughout the northern half of the United States from Maine to the Rocky Mountains. The greenish-white trunk is attractive in nature and in home landscapes. The leaves are deep green in summer and yellow in the fall. The quaking aspen grows 40 to 50 feet tall, and the canopy spreads up to 30 feet wide. The tree gains its name from the quivering motion of the leaves in the breeze. The tree tolerates a wide range of soil types and grows rapidly, characteristics that make it popular in the landscape. The quaking aspen tree prefers full sun and plentiful moisture.
  
  

California Sycamore

• Tall sycamores line a roadway.road between sycamores image by Georgy Shafeev from Fotolia.com
  
  The giant California sycamore (Platanus racemosa) grows to a height of 100 feet with a canopy spreading up to 70 feet wide. The bark is mottled white, tan and brown; it peels off in an attractive pattern that adds to its value as an ornamental tree. Due to its size, this sycamore is suited only to very large landscapes. It grows in USDA zones 7 through 10 in a range of soil types but is not salt or drought tolerant. The leaves are deep green and large; the fall foliage is not remarkable.
  
  

Ghost Gum

• The pale white trunk of the ghost gum inspires its name.Winditch Gum image by Swaggie from Fotolia.com
  
  Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia and require little water once established, making them popular for dry, hot sites. Ghost gums (Eucalyptus papuana) have white trunks and an open branching structure. The lance shaped leaves are olive green and give the tree a feathery landscape texture. The tree gets its name from the ghostly appearance of the white trunks. They grow in USDA zones 9 through 11 in full sun. The leaves have a strong scent common to all eucalyptus varieties.