Canadian poplar (poplar x canadensis)

Canadian poplar (poplar x canadensis)

Appearance: A tree that sheds its leaves for winter, usually dew, with a height of over 30 m, with wide, high and very loose crown.
The trunks are often gnarled and thick at the base, in mature or mature trees up to a height above 10 m devoid of branches, and above with a few, very loosely arranged and almost horizontally protruding branches, which only rise in the upper part or are steeply upwards. Bright shoots- or yellow-brown, quite thick, Donuts also shiny, about the length 5-20 mm, are usually noticeably tightened. Light gray bark, mostly deeply furrowed – furrows are often long and quite wide. The mouth is triangular in outline, have about 7-8 cm in length, at the base they are truncated or slightly heart-shaped, with a slender peak at the front, clearly separated from the rest of the lamina, wavy at the edges, thanks to flat teeth of unequal size. The leaf petioles are usually very clearly flattened 3-5 cm in length.
Shiny male cats, reddish, fall off after flowering. Pretty thick and massive female cats are shiny, green-yellow and fall off much later.
Occurrence: Everywhere in Europe, it is used as a street or park tree in various forms and varieties, as well as in protective plantings. In some places, it is also grown in forests in a short cutting cycle, because trees of this poplar species grow very fast.
Flowering period; April to May.
General thoughts: The Canadian poplar was created from the crosses of the European black poplar (black people) with various American species, mainly with balsam poplar (populous deltoid). The set of commercial varieties is correspondingly rich in forms. These very often and willingly planted trees resemble their European parent form in terms of many features.

Seeds of willow and poplar species with their peculiar tufts of seed hairs, for spreading them by the wind, they are produced in great numbers in inconspicuous fruit bags.