Family: Salicaceae Salicaceae Popurus L.
Morphological characteristics: arborvitae. The bark is grayish green when young, dark gray when old, and longitudinally lobed in the lower part; The budding branches have distinct ridges, reddish-brown, and the old tree twigs are cylindrical and hairless; The buds are slender, tapering at the apex, brown, and sticky. Single-leaf, alternate; The leaves are diamond-shaped ovate, diamond-shaped oval or diamond-shaped inverted ovate, 3 to 12 cm long and 2 to 8 cm wide, often wider above the middle, apex with pointed apex, wedge-shaped or broad-wedge-shaped at the base, finely serrated at the edges, gray-green or slightly white below, glabrous; The petiole is cylindrical in shape and 0.5 to 4 cm long. The male inflorescence is 3 to 7 cm long, the inflorescence axis is glabrous, the bracts are finely lobed, the edges are hairless, and each flower has stamens of 8 to 9, and the dilution is up to 25; The female inflorescence is 2.5 to 6 cm long, the bracts are pale green, the lobes are brown, glabrous, the pistil is 1, the ovary is superior, and the stigma is 2 lobes. The fruit inflorescence is up to 15 cm long; The capsules are 2 to 3 lobes and glabrous. Flowering period in April; The fruiting period is May.
Habitat distribution: Produced in taishan except for the management area of Lingyan. Born on both sides of the valley. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces (autonomous regions).
Economic use: Wood can be used for construction, furniture, papermaking, etc.
Contributed by: Forest Defense Station
Editor: Scenic Rong Media Center Wang Ping
Review: Scenic Rong Media Center Fan Hongliang