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aspen poplar - a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces

abele, Populus alba, silver-leaved poplar, white aspen, white poplar

poplar tree, poplar - any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins

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But the aspen poplar leaves are always shaking, even on the very calmest day.

And then she told us the old legend that the cross on which the Saviour of the world suffered was made of aspen poplar wood and so never again could its poor, shaken, shivering leaves know rest or peace.

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Floodplain Forest White elm Green ash Manitoba maple Basswood / linden Cottonwood Peach-leaf willow Deciduous Forest, Parkland Aspen poplar Balsam poplar Green ash Bur oak Mixed and Coniferous Forest Aspen poplar Jack pine White spruce White birch Balsam fir Red pine White pine Coniferous Bog, Swamp Black spruce Tamarack / larch White cedar Table 3 Wood and charcoal remains from 19th-century archaeological sites and houses in the Red River Settlement.

Pioneers on the forest fringe: the wood economy of the Red River settlement in western Canada, 1812-1883

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