Hohenheimer Gärten (Die Pflanzen der Hohenheimer Gärten)

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Populus alba L. 1753

Salicaceae (APG IV)

silver-leaf poplar, white poplar

Taxon concept: World Flora Online

Distribution: central and southern Europe, Turkey, Palestine, Caucasus, western Siberia, Central Asia, North Africa; naturalised on the British Isles, in Scandinavia, Denmark, North America, New Zealand and South Africa

Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Salicaceae (Zander 2008)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Salicaceae (APG III)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Salicaceae (APG III)
Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge - Accepted: Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Salicaceae (APG III)
Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge - Synonym: Populus alba L. bei Zander 2008; Familie: Salicaceae (Zander 2008)
Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge - Synonym: Populus alba L. 'Pyramidalis' bei Zander 2008; Familie: Salicaceae (Zander 2008)
Populus alba L. 'Pyramidalis' - Accepted: Populus alba L. 'Pyramidalis' bei Zander 2008; Familie: Salicaceae (Zander 2008)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Salicaceae (APG IV)
Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge - Accepted: Populus alba var. pyramidalis Bunge bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Salicaceae (APG IV)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei The Plant List (2010); Familie: Salicaceae (APG IV)
Populus alba L. 'Pyramidalis' - Accepted: Populus alba L. 'Pyramidalis' bei Zander 2008; Familie: Salicaceae (APG IV)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei BfN Checklist Flora DE; Familie: Salicaceae (APG IV)
Populus alba L. - Accepted: Populus alba L. bei World Flora Online - APG IV (Angiosperms); Familie: Salicaceae (World Flora Online - APG IV (Angiosperms))

Difference to related species: compared to Populus nigra on drier sites

Flowers: dioecious species; male and female flowers in catkins

Flower ecology: wind-pollinated (anemophilous)

Life form: woody, tree

Leaves: morphologically variable leaves; silvery-white lower leaf side

Foliage persistence: deciduous

Fruits: capsule fruit with fluffy seeds

Fruit ecology: wind-dispersed (anemochorous)

Soil conditions: preferentially on at least ground and temporarily perculating moist, nutrient-rich and alkaline, immature or humus-containing, loose clay and loamy soils

Natural occurrence (habitat): floodplain mixed forests and riparian woodlands, floodplain clearings, screes, constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers, sand dunes; in Germany native in the Upper Rhine Lowland and in floodplains of the Danube; otherwise planted

Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community): temperate to warm-temperate/Mediterranean, mixed mesophytic broad-leaved forests; in associations of the Alno-Ulmion and Paspalo-Agrostidion

Constraints according soil conditions: tolerant to drought, wind and high temperatures

Life span: long-lived species (to 400 years old)

Usage: used as an ornamental tree, as a windbreak and for dune stabilisation; is exploited for phytoremediation (i.e. for environmental decontamination by means of plants); the wood is used for paper production, excelsior, crates, e.g. fruit boxes, and fibre boards

Bark: bark of young trees with small black lenticels

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Jäger, E. J. et al. (2007): Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland. Band 5: Krautige Zier- und Nutzpflanzen. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Aufl. 31.10.2007: 880.;

Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und Forsten, Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.) (1985): Pflanzenkatalog zur Verbesserung der Bienenweide und des Artenreichtums (Kurztitel: Bienenweidekatalog);

Oberdorfer, E. (2001): Pflanzensoziologische Exkursionsflora. Für Deutschland und angrenzende Gebiete. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 8., stark überarb. u. erg. Aufl, 1056 S. 978-3-8001-3131-0.;

Pritsch, Günter et al. (1985): Bienenweide.. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen;

Schick, B. & Spürgin, A. (1997): Die Bienenweide. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, Auflage: 4., völlig neubearb. u. erw. A., 216 S. 978-3800174188.;

The International Plant Names Index (2009). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org; Courtesy to IPNI, 2009. Exported from IPNI at date: 2009-09-22 20:17:51;

Westrich, P. et al. (2018): Die Wildbienen Deutschlands.. Ulmer Verlag ISBN 978-8186-0123-2.;