Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Aspen: A Information sheet


Quaking Aspen, Mount Moran, Grand Tetons, Wyoming

Quaking Aspen (Details – 1): Botanically this tree is identified as Populus tremuloides and normally it is referred as Aspen.

Quaking Aspen (Information-two): Some men and women also call it as “quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, Quakies, mountain or golden aspen, trembling poplar, white poplar, popple.

Quaking Aspen (Information-3): The forests of this phenomenal tree are widespread in the high plateaus and mountain ranges of North America from the northeastern coastal regions till Alaska.


Quaking Aspens are also known as Golden Aspens

Quaking Aspen (Facts-4): Some of the collections of these trees are also found in the rocky mountain regions of the central Mexico.

Quaking Aspen (Details-five): A tall, quickly developing tree, typically 20–25 meters (66–82 ft) at maturity, with a trunk 20–80 centimeters (7.9–31 in) in diameter records are 36.5 meters (120 ft) in height and 1.37 meters (4.5 ft) in diameter.

Quaking Aspen (Information-six): The leaves on mature trees are almost round, 4–8 centimeters (1.6–3.1 in) in diameter with tiny rounded teeth, and a 3–7 centimeters (1.2–2.8 in) long, flattened petiole. Young trees (like root sprouts) have a lot larger—10–20 centimeters (three.9–7.9 in) long—nearly triangular leaves.


Glittering Aspen Leaves are actual gold !

Quaking Aspen (Facts-7): The flowers are catkins 4–6 centimeters (1.6–2.4 in) long, produced in early spring before the leaves even though the fruit is a 10-centimetre (3.9 in) long pendulous string of six-millimetre (.24 in) capsules.

Quaking Aspen (Facts-8): The most distinguished fact of this tree it’s the color changing nature of its clones especially in the instances of leafing and falls.

Quaking Aspen (Information-9): Aspen bark includes a substance that was extracted by Native Americans and the pioneers of the American West as a quinine substitute. On the other hand, the leaves are a great source for caterpillars of various Lepidoptera.

Quaking Aspen (Information-ten): Aspen stands are in decline on the Colorado Plateau. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that amongst 1962 and 1986, aspen stands have declined by 46% in Arizona and New Mexico.


Maroon Bells at Sunrise with Aspen beauty -Colorado

A Great video capture of Quaking Aspen and Rocky Mountains

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