Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
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Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 9, t. 878 (1851)
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
Nomenclature
Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
Hook.
1851
t. 878
ICN
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
species
Populus trichocarpa
Classification
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Descriptions
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
Large tree, almost pyramidal when young, suckering moderately. Bark grey, fissured, peeling when young. Shoots somewhat angled, brown. Buds and very young shoots very viscid and balsam-scented, glabrous. Petioles to c. 9 cm long, terete, glabrous. Lamina to 13-(18) × 10 cm, usually deltoid-ovate or ovate, sometimes narrow-ovate, greenish white below, glabrous except for ciliolate margin, ± green when very young; veins green above; margin without translucent band, crenate-serrulate; base broad-cuneate, truncate or subcordate, usually glandless; apex acute to short-acuminate. Catkins ♂, pendulous, to c. 10 cm long. Rachis ± puberulent. Bracts 3-4 mm long excluding filiform teeth, hairy, whitish. cup-shaped disc 2-3 mm deep, oblique, glabrous. Stamens 30-90; anthers crimson.
Taxonomic concepts
Populus trichocarpa Torr. & A.Gray ex Hook.
Populus trichocarpa Hook.
Historic biostatus
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1 January 2000
2 October 2015