Populus angustifolia Torr.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Populus angustifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/populus/populus-angustifolia/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Common Names

  • WIllow-leaved Poplar

Synonyms

  • P. balsamifera var. angustifolia (Torr.) S. Wats.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Populus angustifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/populus/populus-angustifolia/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A tree 50 to 60 ft high in the wild (Sargent), but, as seen in cultivation here, a low bushy-headed tree with short, much-forked, crooked branches; young shoots round, glabrous or minutely downy, especially towards the apex; winter-buds sticky, slender-pointed.. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5 in. long, 12 to 112 in. wide, wedge-shaped at the base, tapering gradually to a point at the apex, minutely and evenly round-toothed, green on both sides, although paler beneath, glabrous except sometimes for minute down beneath; stalk ordinarily about 12 in. long. Catkins not seen in this country, but the male ones described by Sargent as 112 to 212 in. long, densely flowered; the female catkins are 2 to 4 in. long when mature.

Native of western N. America, but not of the Pacific side of the Rocky Mountains. It is one of the balsam group with the characteristic odour, and is distinguished by its willow-like leaves, not white beneath. In foliage it most resembles P. laurifolia, but that species has angular, more downy young shoots, and leaves pale beneath.