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Salicaceae
Poplar Flower
Populus nigra
Community and endurance.
- Family
- Salicaceae
- Genus
- Populus
- Native to
- Europe, Western Asia, North Africa
- Bloom season
- Spring
- Type
- tree
- Height
- 65-100 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun
- Soil
- moist, deep, well-drained
- Water
- high
- Hardiness
- 3-9
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Poplar catkins appear before the leaves each spring, and a single tree can release millions of cotton-like seeds into the air.
- The buds produce a sticky resin called propolis that honeybees collect to seal and disinfect their hives.
- Lombardy poplars, a columnar variety of black poplar, were planted along roads by Napoleon to shade his marching armies.
- Poplar wood grows so fast it can add 3 inches of trunk diameter per year, making it one of the fastest-growing temperate trees.
- The leaves tremble in the slightest breeze because of their flattened petioles, earning poplars the nickname 'quaking trees.'
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courage
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time
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endurance