A PRESENTATION ON

POPLARS

JITHIN NATH K G
(2007-07-18)
POPULUS
CILIATA
 GENERAL CHARACTERS
 Large deciduous tree with clean straight bole.
 Leaves broadly ovate acuminate, with a
chordate base.
 Margins serrulate – crenate and ciliate.
 Buds viscid and resinous.
 Bark-
 Young trees are smooth and greenish.
 Old trees dark brown and rough.

 Wood- whitish to grayish brown.

 DISTRIBUTION AND
HABITAT
 Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutan.
 It seen in broad – leaved, oak, and coniferous
forests.
 In coniferous forests it is mostly associated
with blue pine.
 It found in the pure patches of the forest.
LEAF SHEDDING, FLOWERING,
AND FRUITING
 It commence leaf shedding in September.
 New leaves appear at the end of march.
 Catkins appear immediately before the young
leaves.
 Catkins are 3-6cm long, with yellow color.
 Fruits ripen in June.

 3 or 4 valved capsuls opening and permitting

minute seeds.
 Seeds are about 0.05 in. in long.

 With light color.

 Covered with minute bristles.

 GERMINATION
 Epigeous germination.
 The testa splits longitudinally down one edge like
a follicle and the radicle emerges.
 SEEDLING
 During the first season growth of seedling is
slow.
 By the end of the season it attain a height of
0.5-1.3in
SILVICULTURAL CHARACTERS

 Populus Ciliata is a light demander.

 It has an extra ordinary capacity for producing

root suckers.
 The tree stand drought well.
 NATURAL REPRODUCTION
 Seed germinate after few days from
commencement of rain.
 Seedling production never spring up in areas
covered with grass or weeds.
 Commonest form naturel regeneration is by
root suckers.
 ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION
 Since the seeds are minute usual method of
rising nursery is not applicable.
 Saw the seeds in June on the surface of
powdered brick.
 Frequent watering is required.
 Weeds should remove when they appear.
 Water should given regularly but springly
during dry season.
 RATE OF GROWTH
 The growth is fairly fast especialy for young
trees.
 Mean annual increment is 1.06in.
POPULUS NIGRA

Family:Salicaceae.
 MORPHOLOGY
 It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree
reaching 20-30 m ht.
 With viscid buds and branch lets.
 Leaves are triangular, acuminate.
 Bark is grey or grayish black and rough.
 DISTRIBUTION
 Native to Europe, southwest and central Asia,
and northwest Africa.
 The tree will grow in comparitively dry
ground.
 PROPAGATION
 It is easily raised from root cuttings.
 Root-suckers are not often produced while the
tree is living.
POPULUS NIGRA - LEAF
POPULUS ALBA
(White Poplar)
Family:Salicaceae
 MORPHOLOGY
 It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, growing
to the heights of up to 16-27 m.
 The bark is smooth and greenish-white to
grayish-white.
 Bark has diamond-shaped dark marks on
young trees.
Bark of populus alba.
 LEAVES
 The leaves are 4-15 cm long and five-lobed.
 Thick covering of white scurfy down on both
sides but thicker underneath; this layer wears
off the upper side but not the lower, which
stays white until autumn leaf fall.
Leaf of populus alba
 DISTRIBUTION
 It is native from Spain and Morocco through
central Europe to central Asia.
 It is widely cultivated in western Himalayas.
 FLOWERS
 The flowers are catkins up to 8 cm long,
produced in early spring.
 They are dioecious.
 Male and female catkins are on separate trees.
 Male catkins are grey while female catkins are
grayish-green.
 PROPAGATION
 It also propagates by means of root suckers,
growing from the lateral roots.
 As far as 20-30 m from the trunk, to form
extensive clonal colonies.
POPULUS EUPHRATICA

Family:Salicaceae
 MORPHOLOGY
 A moderate sized tree with deciduous
character.
 It reaches the height of 40-50ft.
 Girth of 5-8ft.
 In height elevations it is a small tree.
 LEAVES
 Leaves are very variable.
 Long, shortly petioled, usualy entire.
 In older on normal branches broadly ovate or
cordate.
 The flowers are deciduous .
 DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT.
 It seen in ladak, Tibet, afganisthan, Iran and
Palestine.
 The tree is typicaly gregarios, occuring pure or
associated with a few other species.
 In sind and southern punjab the tree experience
dry climate.
 The tree prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy)
and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-
drained soil.
 It cannot grow in the shade.
 LEAF-SHEDDING FLOWERING
AND FRUITING.
 The tree is leafless January to march.
 Before falling the leaf it assumes rich golden
color.
 The flower is catkin, male 1-2in; female2-3in.
 Fruits ripen from April to June.
SILVICULTURAL CHARACTERS
 It is a light demander. Root system is
superficial.
 It produce root suckers.
 The production of root suckers is stimulated in
areas overrun by fire.
 In its earliar stage it siffer much from cattle
and goats.
 REFERENCE
 Silviculture of Indian trees-Vol.3
By R.S Troup M.A, C.I.E
 Silviculture of Indian trees.
By S S NEGI.