Poplar ID

[Steve Bullman]

Stumped on this one. Trunk was more like a Lombardy that anything. Not great pics unfortunately, but maybe someone wants to have a punt?

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Form could be a Balsam Pop.

[Mark Bolam]

Millennial lombardy with issues deciding what it wants to be?

[Dan Maynard]

Looks like pop to me too. I usually nod and say, well there are loads of different kinds and they hybridise so actually very difficult to identify in the field.....

 

(works for willow too)

[Dionysus]

Is it not just a populus nigra? lombardy is a clone var of nigra.

[Steve Bullman]

24 minutes ago, Dionysus said:

Is it not just a populus nigra? lombardy is a clone var of nigra.

Not a pure blood I don’t believe 

[Dionysus]

6 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Not a pure blood I don’t believe 

Could be Betulifolia but they are really rare no? "The ‘native’ Black Poplar, P. nigra ssp. betulifolia, is distinguished in the British Isles by having characteristically diamond-shaped leaves (cuneate leaf-bases) without glands, no balsam smell, a distinctive outline with downswept branches, and it often has burrs on the bark of the trunk."

 

I can't tell from the bark, not sure if i've ever seen a Betulifolia... makes me wonder about some of the black pops i've taken down in the past if there is only 7000 estimated in the british isles of which 600 being female.

 

[Steve Bullman]

There were a lot of trees on this site that I couldn’t identify, which only makes it more of a mystery 

[daltontrees]

Identification of poplars is a highly technical matter, in some cases ID can only been done after a visit to observe catkins then later in the year to observe leaves. Nae chance from just pictures of bark, but could narrow it down a bit.

[Steve Bullman]

Narrow it down a bit, what’s your gut feeling? 😀