White Poplar
Populus alba · Salicaceae · 은백양
How to spot it
White hairs on the underside of the leaf and on the leaf stalk, coarse teeth, and leaves often with 3 to 5 lobes stand out.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaf undersides are densely covered with white down, and leaves with 3 to 5 lobes appear.
- Flowers
- Before the leaves emerge, male and female flowers grow in catkins on separate trees. The male catkins are red and the female catkins are green.
- Fruit
- Capsules hold small cottony seeds that spread by wind.
- Bark
- Young bark is smooth and green-gray; mature trees develop dark ridges and furrows.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Europe and Central Asia.
- Ecology
- Fast-growing and spreads by seed and root suckers. In naturalized areas of the United States it is recorded as able to overwhelm other plants.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- Theoi Project(그리스 신화 원전 발췌·번역 아카이브)
- Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.14.2 (W. H. S. Jones 영역, Theoi 수록)
- University of Glasgow, Alciato at Glasgow — Emblem CCXII Populus alba
- Woodland Trust — White Poplar (Populus alba)