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Populus ciliata
Populus ciliata is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree from the Himalayan foothills, valued for its tall straight trunk and wide crown. It needs full sun, moist soil, and cold winters, and seed must be sown fresh because it loses viability within days.
Populus ciliata, the Himalayan poplar, is a large deciduous tree with tall clean straight trunk and wide rounded crown. The bark of the young trees is smooth and greenish-grey while the bark of the old trees is dark brown with vertical cracks. Leaves are broadly ovate with hairy serrulate-crenate margins. Flowers are drooping raceme catkins that appear before or with leaves. Populus ciliata flowers are dioecious. Male flowers have a bell-shaped perianth and female flowers are bluntly toothed. A single capsule encloses an average of 100–150 seeds, which are covered by long silky hair.
The seeds weigh about 15 million/kg. In spring, seeds disperse as soon as they mature due to an extremely short period of viability of a few days after maturation. Fresh seeds exhibit high viability with a germination rate of up to 75–90%.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Populus ciliata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
