Tree #34
Name:
Common: Eastern Cottonwood
Scientific: Polpus deltordes
Leaf:
Type: Heart Shaped
Form:
1. Vein: Pinnate
Venation
2.Apex: Acute
3.Margin: Sinuate
4.Base: Square
Venation: Palmate
Arrangement:Whirled
Flower: It is brown cakin like with
cottony seeds.
Fruit: No
Twig: Coarse and brittle.
Bark: Large and straight, heavly
ridged, and rough.
Form: Oval,75-100ft
Discussion:
Uses:
Habitat for animals.
Origin: All over the bottom lands
present in low lying water ways.
Distribution: Quebec to North
Dakota, South to Florida, and Texas.
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References:
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