#279 most planted
Populus x canescens
Grey poplar · also Gray poplar, Matchwood poplar
5,012
trees mapped
0.05%
of all named trees
13
cities
9.5 in
median trunk (24 cm, 3,004 measured)
38 yr
median age (66% have a planting date)
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Populus x canescens, or grey poplar, is a hybrid of white poplar and common aspen. It is a vigorous tree that can reach 40 meters (130 feet) tall and has a trunk diameter over 1.5 meters (5 feet). Most cultivated trees are male, but female trees also occur naturally.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 2,2490.79%42 yr16 in
- 1,0040.30%16 yr7.9 in
- 9710.08%—6.3 in
- 2950.07%51 yr19 in
- 1930.43%9.8 yr4.3 in
- 1090.05%—8.8 in
- 710.04%12 yr2.0 in
- 620.01%—3.5 in
- 440.06%—16 in
- 60.00%——
- 50.00%—38 in
- 20.00%——
- 10.00%——
Traits
- Mature height
- 131.2 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
Trunk diameters across every city: median 9.5 in, mean 12 in, 90th percentile 30 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Balkan mixed forests
- Central Anatolian steppe and woodlands
- Central European mixed forests
- East European forest steppe
- Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
- Western European broadleaf forests
Other Populus in the catalogue
28 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
