Bigtooth aspen is a short lived (50 years), fast growing, medium sized tree. Trees need to be about 10 to 20 years of age to produce seed but begin flowering much earlier. It regenerates from seed and from root sprouting.

The BigTooth Aspen shakes in light air and shakes in strong wind. Bigtooth Aspen is a native short-lived deciduous tree growing 30 to 60 feet high with a diameter of 1 to 1-1/2 feet, an irregular thin crown and a straight trunk with gently ascending branches. It seldom exceeds 60 feet in height and 20 inches in diameter. Notes: Bigtooth Aspen is indigenous to the Garden. 3 0 obj Heritage Tree: Just SE of the Garden's front gate is a large Bigtooth Aspen listed as a Minneapolis Heritage Tree for its champion size of 58 feet in height and 30 inches in circumference. Distribution principally from W1, W2 and 28C. Then the capsule splits into two and each chamber releases between 3 and 9 small seeds embedded in fine white cotton-like hair which are dispersed far and wide by the wind in early summer. Bigtooth aspen is a short lived (50 years), fast growing, medium sized tree. Adirondacks Tree – Bigtooth Aspen leaves have large, round teeth. The fruit is a catkin like the cottonwood fruit but the capsules are smaller and darker in color, containing brown, fine, tufted seeds. The single leaves are 3 to 4 inches long, with a dark green upper surface and with large, coarse, irregular teeth. Leaves are alternate, simple, single toothed, triangle shaped. The catkins are technically referred to as 'aments'. Within Minnesota it is found in 2/3rds of the state mostly absent in the SW section. Text and photos are by G. D. Bebeau unless otherwise credited. Above: Bigtooth Aspen bark - 1st photo - younger branches; 2nd photo - the lower trunk with age begins to scale and create ridges; 3rd photo - the lower trunk of old tress is furrowed and ridged. 3rd photo - Twig- buds in spring on an older twig. Bigtooth aspen can be distinguished from quaking aspen by the smaller number and the larger size of the teeth on the leaves and from the lighter colored buds. A single catkin can have 70 to 100 capsules.

P. grandidentata is strongly heterophyllous, that is, it has two types of leaves - those that are formed in the winter bud for early spring growth, known as preformed or early leaves and leaves produced later in the season known as neoformed leaves. Flowers are in dense 2 to 3 inch long brownish fuzzy drooping catkins. The bark is thin, smooth, and whitish, gray or olive-green to milky-brown on young stems becoming a darker gray-brown and furrowed into flat, scaly ridges with diamond shaped lenticels and splits on older trunks. Bigtooth aspen and quaking aspen (P. tremuloides) are the only two North American aspen species. The overwintering large terminal bud has fine fuzzy hair. usually larger than other Populus species, coarsely toothed with a flattened slender leafstalk (petiole), young leaves whitish and woolly underneath, Produces more wood per acre than most other trees. The large teeth on the leaf of Bigtooth Aspen provides the common name. x��[�o�F7��aɃ��˯"P'M���p�!�I�$��R�U���̬�!�˺�Isvf~�ٙ {�{���׏_>1��v��#�����������0vY�����������y�Y0���퍀�&��ЃK{���C�=��ؖ�E�o?��|��3۷�Mi/\�lli�؏�R����~��� d�����Ÿ/#��~=�%���܋W �h,B��pN�u�3"B.Ŭ��ʪ�����"ɒ�h��ҐX���{�f짯�H�G�G���T��X��p�,��

Big-toothed poplar, a tree of sandy uplands in the northeastern states, is so-named for its leaves which have large teeth on the margin. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Twigs are reddish-brown in color, slender and hairy when young, becoming reddish-gray by the third year. Leaf scars are raised and heart-shaped, and like the Cottonwood, crushed twigs have a bitter aspirin taste. The tree forms clones, The tree is not shade tolerant and must have well drained soils which gives it a wide variety of sites where it can grow, plus Bigtooth Aspen can occupy drier sites than Quaking Aspen. Although widely distributed in Ohio, it is more common in the northern part of the state. The entire leaf is covered with fine hair when young which disappears with leaf maturity. The upper surface is a dull green, paler beneath. The later leaves will have smaller and more numerous teeth and are the last to fall from the tree in Autumn. Like many species, the shape of the bark of the Bigtooth Aspen changes with age. It is also known as Large-toothed aspen. Images not to scale. The leaves turn yellowish gold in the fall, creating striking scenery where large stands of the trees grow. A fast-growing, but short-lived, pioneer species, Bigtooth Aspen attains heights of 60 to 80 feet. Return to -- Site Plan/Archive Index --or-- List of Common Plant Names -- or -- List of Scientific Names -- or --Home Page - - - Back to top. The author name for the plant classification, “Michx.”, refers to Andre Michaux (1746-1802), French botanist who made many exploring expeditions in the U.S. collecting and cataloging many species.Two important works of his are the Histoire des chênes de l'Amérique septentrionale (1801 - Oaks of North America), and the Flora Boreali-Americana (2 vols., 1803, published posthumously and contained the description of this tree). Bigtooth Aspen (Populus grandidentata) is a native deciduous tree, which grows throughout northeastern North America, including New York State and the Adirondack Mountains.It is also known as Largetooth Aspen, Poplar, or Popple. -7��\ޤuV�ɶ��[^{�4ƀ�JZ�c@�C]���E �j>֖Ca�p0�T,����P-�6N�@�bʊ�2�,;�}�9Lq !y���X���'������_��PK����#�S�XV���)5�^�e�ђܱ$o0�*�";�:��h��ҏ�@����{�!�T$����@���y�5�47��D%(�����UB'���U��6H

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