Eastern cottonwood, Necklace poplar
Populus deltoides · Salicaceae · 미루나무
How to spot it
Leaves are longer than wide, which easily separates it from the Lombardy-type poplar (yangbeodeul).
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are ovate-triangular, 7 to 12 cm long and wide, with incurved teeth; the petiole is long and flat so the leaves tremble easily in wind. There are 2 to 3 glands at the leaf base.
- Flowers
- Flowers open in March to April before the leaves, in catkins.
- Fruit
- Fruit is a capsule splitting into 3 to 4 parts, ripening in May; the fruit clusters are 15 to 20 cm long.
- Bark
- Bark is gray or dark brown and vertically fissured.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Central, eastern and southern United States.
- Ecology
- Riverbanks and moist, fertile valleys are suitable planting sites; strongly cold-hardy, needs much sun, and strongly tolerates moisture, sea wind and air pollution.