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Populus alba L.

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Populus alba L., Sp. Pl. 1034 (1753)
Populus alba L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
1034
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Populus alba L.
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Populus alba

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Populus alba L.

Tree to c. 25 m high, usually spreading, suckering profusely. Bark grey, rather smooth to shallowly fissured. Shoots white-tomentose, terete. Buds white, with appressed tomentum, not viscid. Young lvs not aromatic. Petiole 1.5-5 cm long, white-tomentose, slightly compressed. Lamina on vegetative shoots 3-10 × 2-9.5 cm, ± deltoid, with 3-5 lobulate or toothed primary lobes; lamina on adult shoots smaller, ovate, ovate-oblong or suborbicular, lobed or strongly toothed, always white, loosely tomentose below and at first above, later glabrous or nearly so on upper surface, green and shining; margin lacking translucent band; base truncate, rounded or subcordate, glandless; apex obtuse or rounded. Catkins ♀, ± pendent, 2-8 cm long at anthesis. Rachis villous. Bracts 3-3.5 mm long, membranous, shining, brown in upper part, incised to shallowly toothed, prominently long-ciliate. Cup-shaped disc 0.5-0.8 mm deep, glabrous or somewhat villous; margin slightly sinuate. Ovary glabrous; stigmas slender, whitish. Capsule containing dense, white, cottony hairs, especially towards base.

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Populus alba L.
Populus alba L.
Populus alba L.

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Populus alba L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Populus alba L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Populus alba L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Populus alba L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Populus alba L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
3 June 2021
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