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Populus grandidentata

Large-toothed Poplar

Pronunciation
pop-U-lus GRAN-dee-den-tay-tah
Family
Genus
Nativity

Maine to North Carolina west to Illinois

Growth Habit

Often pyramidal in youth, and open oval irregular crown at maturity.

Hardiness
3
Culture

Optimum growth in moist soils with full sun but can grow in gravelly soils.

Facultative Status
Facultative Upland
Landscape Use

Good tree for sandy slopes

Foliage

Alternate, simple, on a long petiole and irregularly toothed on the margin. New growth is pubescent and changes to yellow in the fall.

Buds

Buds are imbricately scaled, long and pointed, fine pubescence is evident.

Bark

Bark is light in color sometimes a greenish gray color, nondescript.

Flower

Non-showy yellow flowers.

Fruit

Nearly pear-shaped with fine hair tufts at the tip. Non-descript.

Propagation

Seed.

Pests
None serious.
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