Botanical name: Populus deltoides    Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)

Eastern cottonwood is a large, fast-growing, upright, spreading, and pyramidal or vase-shaped tree. It grows to a height of 75 to 100 feet. Although pyramidal in youth, this tree will have a broad vase with open branches with age. The tree has yellowish twigs, light to medium green, triangular shaped, coarsely toothed leaves, and gummy-ended buds that easily distinguish it from other species of poplar. Catkins emerge in the spring before the leaves. During the summer, seed capsules of the female catkin appear. When the capsules split open the seeds appear with silky white hairs that are then dispersed by the wind. Eastern Cottonwood is native to North America, introduced into Western Himalayas.

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