Black PoplarPopulus nigraSaliacaceae
 
 
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ClassificationBlack Poplar
Height:up to 30 m
Leaf:rounded and triangular
Bloom: April, catkins
Fruit:greenish-brown catkins
Branches:yellowish to light gray
Bark:first whitish and smooth, later covered with bark and black, deep grooves
Root:shallow root, extremely long
Location:sun to half shade
Soil:sandy – loamy to very loamy
ph-value:neutral to basic
Diseases:black poplar
Leaf necrosis
Small black spots that grow together to form larger spots. Not dangerous for the tree.
 
Other Broadleaf Foliar Diseases (Melampsora larici-populina)
 
 
Disease of the shoot ends
Black colored leaves, dried out shoot ends.
Poplar spiral gall aphid (Pemphigus spirothecae PASS.)
Not dangerous for the tree.
Poplar cauliflower galls (Aceria populi (NAL.))
Not dangerous for the tree.
Aphides (Parathecabiuslysimachiae)
Leaf deformation through attack of aphides. Not dangerous for the tree.
Bark bligh
Wound ebullition after bark necrosis through Cryptodiaporthe populea.
Canker (Nectria galligena):
Fungi that leads to the breaking off of bark. Affected twigs and branches should be removed and burned. If the trunk is affected, then an expert should be called to remove canker.
  
 Fungi
Thick-maze oak polypore
Aspen Trunk Rot
Polyporus rheades
Poria obliqua