The trembles or poplar trembles ( Populus trembled L.) or poplar false-trembles is a Arbre of intermediate size to null and void Feuille S like the Peuplier S of the family of the Salicacées. It is widespread in the whole of the Eurasia. It owes its name with the fact that its sheets are agitated with the least breath of wind.

Species

The kind Populus includes/understands 6 different species:

• Populus adenopoda : Chinese (China)
• Populus sieboldii trembles: Japanese (Japan)
• Populus alba trembles: White (western North of Africa, south of Europe, East Asia and power station)
• Populus × canescens trembles: Grey Poplar (hybrid of P. alba × P. trembled )
• Populus trembled : Tremble common
• Populus tremuloides : Quaking, Trembling or Tremble American (western north of North America)
• Populus grandidentata : Bigtooth Aspen (Is of North America)

Description

Tree of intermediate size, 25 to 30 m in height. Sheets small, alternate, round, notched, with lengthened and flattened, very flexible petiole. Flowers grouped in male kittens and females separate.

Smooth bark, strewn with lenticels in rhombus, crevassant with the age.

• white Bois creams, very homogeneous, of good mechanical resistance, but of low durability. Density: 0,45-0,50.

Characteristics

• reproductive Bodies:

• Standard of inflorescence: simple ear
• Distribution of the sexes: dioïque
• Standard of pollination: anémogame
• Period of flowering: March at April
• Seed:
• Standard of fruit: capsule
• Mode of dissemination: anémochore
• Habitat and distribution:
• standard Habitat: wood caducifoliés médioeuropéens, planitiaires-collinéens, acidoclines
• Surface of distribution: eurasiatic Southerner

Given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

Biology

Flowering about March-April (before the appearance of the sheets).

Tree of rapid growth, with longevity limited from 70 to 80 years. It is a gasoline of full light, which is disseminated in free spaces: cuts, clearings, edges of wood. Do not form dense settlements, but bouquets, because it suckers much. It is a species pionnière.

Prefer the fresh and well drained grounds.

Trophic requirements: broad trophic amplitude: fairly acid with neutrocline

Distribution

Tree of plain in the major part of Europe, Asia of North (Russia, China, Mongolia, the Caucasus) and in North Africa. Present in mountain up to 1300 m of altitude.

Uses

• pulp paper
• joinery, panels of pieces of furniture, packing
• unwinding (manufacture of matches)
• the bark has properties febrifuge

See too

• '' Populus trembled '' on Tela Botanica

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