WHITE POPLAR; SILVER POPLAR (Populase alba, Linn.). St to 50 feet. Round-headed tree, with dense foliage mass above short trunk. Bark white or pale gray, roughened by excrescences and furrowed to show dark spots, scars, and blotches. Limbs smooth, pale, green toward tips, in spring. Twigs fuzzy when young. Buds large. Leaves irregularly lobed and toothed, 1 to 3 inches long and broad, dark green, shining above, thickly lined with white down, on round, flex ible stems. Flowers in fuzzy catkins; pistillate greenish,
few-flowered. Fruit s-celled capsules filled with minute, hairy-winged seeds. This European species largely planted about homes as an ornamental and shade tree. Has bad habit of sprouting from roots. Leaves collect soot and dust, and become unsightly in summer.