Tree ID - native poplar, hybrid, or aspen?

[GW1]

I've heard native black poplars are rare.

Does anyone know whether this may be a native black poplar, or if it's a hybrid, different type of poplar, or european aspen?

I'm trying to figure out whether to try propagating it before it's felled.

[peds]

Looks identical to a dozen of what I assumed to be native black poplar in my back garden (bark, leaf, suckers, the lot), but I've never formally identified them. So I'd be interested in a definitive answer too.

 

Easiest propagation... fell it, wait for panic suckers, dig them up and pot them on... thousands of the bastards!

[richyrich]

I'd say hybrid. I'm not that proficient on poplar id though.

[Dan Maynard]

From what I read true native blacks are so rare you are unlikely to see one, everything is hybrid.