White Poplar

White poplar may refer to several trees in the genus Populus:

  • Populus alba, native to Eurasia
  • Populus grandidentata, bigtooth aspen
  • Populus tremuloides, American aspen
  • Populus tomentosa, Chinese white poplar

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or poplar:

    “The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
    The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,”
    —Sara Coleridge (1802–1852)