Korean aspen
Populus tremula var. davidiana · Salicaceae · 사시나무
Look
- Leaves
- Round or broadly ovate, 2 to 6 x 2 to 5 cm, with shallow wavy teeth and a gray-green underside. The petiole is flat and 3 to 6 cm long.
- Flowers
- Blooms in April in catkins before the leaves; male catkins are 5 to 10 cm long and female catkins 4 to 10 cm.
- Fruit
- The capsule is long elliptic, 2 to 6 mm long, ripening and splitting in May; seeds with white cottony hairs are carried off by wind.
- Bark
- Gray-green and smooth for a long time, later shallowly fissured and turning dark brown.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Russian Far East, China and Japan; on the Korean Peninsula along the Baekdudaegan from Hamgyeong and Pyongan provinces to Gangwon and northern Gyeonggi.
- Ecology
- Grows well in moderately moist, deep, rich sandy loam and is cold-hardy. It invades burned areas, damaged vegetation and open land to form stands.