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POPULUS NIGRA
General description:
English: Black Poplar
Spanish: Álamo negro
Estonian: Must pappel
Portuguese: Choupo- negro
Flowers
Black poplar trees are
dioecious (male and female
flowers on separate trees).
Catkins appear in late winter
to early spring (March-April)
before the leaves develop.
Drooping male catkins (to 1-
2” long) feature apetalous
flowers with deep red
anthers. More upright
female catkins (to 4-5” long)
feature apetalous flowers
with two green stigmas.
It is a tree.
It is 30 metrestall.
The colour of the bark is grayish.
Leaves
The leaves are ovate heart-
shaped or deltoid, large and
acuminate, as long as wide,
with the petiole flattened
laterally and with glands at
the end.
Fruit
It has male and female
fruit, the male fruit its
read and the female fruit
its green.