Populus × canescens
Populus × canescens (Aiton) Sm.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 35 m
- wide
- 15 m
Salicaceae
Formerly Leuce × canescens, Octima × canescens, Populus schischkinii, Populus × ambigua, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to XinjiangKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 35 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 40–40 m; Plants for a Future 30–30 m
- Spread
- 15 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- 3D model: Populus × canescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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