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Family: Salicaceae	Genus: Populus	Species: Populus deltoides Marshall( पॉप्लर )

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Populus deltoides var. angulata (Aiton) Sarg, , Populus deltoides var.deltoides	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Eastern cottonwood, cottonwood poplar	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Necklace poplar,Caroline poplar,cottonwood,eastern poplar,plains cottonwood,eastern cottonwood.	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Poplar	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up to 1000m	Fruit Type	Capsule
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Capsules ovoid, glabrous, green, splitting into 3-4 parts when mature; seeds cottony.
Habitat	Usually grows near rivers, with mud banks left after floods providing ideal conditions for seedling germination; human soil cultivation has allowed it to increase its range away from such habitats.	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	Native of Canada, United States of America.	Bark Details	The bark is silvery-white, smooth or lightly fissured when young, becoming dark gray and deeply fissured on old trees.
Distribution in Haryana	Jhajjar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Panipat, Rohtak	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Cordate
Description of Species	Tree growing to 20–40 m tall, bark silvery-white, smooth or lightly fissured when young, becoming dark gray and deeply fissured on old trees. Leaves large, deltoid (triangular), base flattened), coarsely toothed, teeth curved and gland tipped, petiole flat; dioecious, inflorescence catkins produced on single-sex trees male catkins reddish-purple and female catkins green, seed capsules in early summer, which split open to release the numerous small seeds attached to cotton-like strands	Leaf Details	Leaves large, deltoid (triangular), base flattened), coarsely toothed, teeth curved and gland tipped, petiole flat.

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