CATTON ARBORETUM
Populus maximowiczii
Common name:
Japanese Balsam Poplar
Year planted:
2013
Country of origin:
Russia
Year introduced:
1913
Description:
Can grow to be a large tree. Its wood used to provide most of the material for the match industry and is often used in paper manufacture . There are male and female trees. Both can produce catkins in the spring but the tree starts growth early and is often caught out from late spring frosts from which it has to recover. Leaves are broadly ovate to roundish.
what3words:
jars.pegs.negotiators
Tree number: 95