Populus adenopoda

Chinese aspen

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMalpighiales
5. FamilySalicaceae

Native toAssam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar

Observations15

Observations recorded872

Trees to 30 m tall; bark grayish white, smooth, becoming dark gray, furrowed; crown ovoid. Old branches grayish brown, glabrous; branchlets slender or robust, dull reddish brown pubescent. Buds conical, viscid, glabrous. Petiole very laterally flattened, 2-8(-12) cm, tomentose or downy; leaf blade ovate-orbicular or ovate, 5-15 × 4-7(-13) cm, abaxially grayish green, densely pubescent when young, adaxially dark green, glabrous or downy along veins, shiny, base truncate or cordate, rarely subrounded or cuneate, with 2 raised glands, margin incurved, glandular crenate-serrate or loosely or coarsely dentate, apex long acuminate or caudate. Male catkin 6-10 cm. Male flower: disc dentate-lobed. Fruiting catkin 12-20(-30) cm; rachis pilose; bracts palmatiparted, brown, obovate-elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm, ciliate. Capsule long ovoid-ellipsoid, (2-)4-6 mm, glabrous, 2-valved, shortly stipitate, apex acute. Seeds dark. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Apr-May.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

31

With media

26

Family

Salicaceae

Collections

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, US, LD, NY, NHMUK, MNHN

Recorded in

United States, China

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Populus

Image

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Has use

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