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 white man’s mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, could the red man set his foot?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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