Grey poplar

Populus x canescens

• Height: up to 30 m
• Trunk: initially smooth, light-colored bark that darkens with age and becomes deeply furrowed
• Crown: rounded, open crown
• Leaves: rounded to triangular (approx. 7 cm), irregularly toothed, with large, arched teeth and shallow notches, long, flattened, hairy petiole, dark upper surface, glossy grey-green, lower surface densely covered with silvery hairs
• Flowers: grey to reddish, pendulous male catkins and greenish female catkins in April before leaf emergence
• Fruits/Seeds: two-valved fruit capsules with hairy seeds in May/June
• Other: Hybrid of silver poplar and aspen

^{Photos: BUND Naturschutz in Bayern (1,2,3)}