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Scientific name:

Populus alba

Vernacular name:

Poplar, White


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White Poplar

Scientific name: Populus alba L.

Diagnostic features
Tree to 24m with broad spreading crown, many suckers and smooth grey bark.
Leaves palmately lobed, densely white-tomentose on lowerside.
Males very rare.

Chromosome number: (2n=38, 57).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; much planted and often well naturalized from dense sucker growth, especially on coastal dunes.

Distribution
Scattered in British Isles, especially in Central & South Britain and British Isles; Europe.

Thisspecies is keyed out on Page 1675 in the Text Key.

Hybrids
- See Populus canescens(x) (Aiton) Sm. (= Populus alba x Populus tremula)

Populus alba (Poplar, White)
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