LARGE-TOOTHED POPLAR
Populus grandidentata, Michx.
Form.—Height 30-60 feet, diameter 1-2 feet; trunk continuous, tapering; slender ascending branches forming a somewhat loose oval crown.
Leaves.—Alternate, simple, round-ovate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, thin, dark green above, paler beneath, smooth; petioles long, slender, laterally flattened.
Flowers.—April-May, before the leaves; dioecious; staminate in short catkins; pistillate in elongating looser catkins.
Fruit.—Two-halved, cone-shaped, hairy capsules ⅛ inch long on drooping catkins; seeds brown, small, with long white hairs.
Bark.—Smooth except near the base, gray-green, resembling that of American Aspen, but with more yellowish or buff color on young trunks and limbs.
Wood.—Light, soft, not strong, light brown with almost white sapwood.