Description

Steepside mountain and poplars

Therina Groenewald: Steepside mountain and poplars – professional photographer.

Steepside mountain and poplars – A deciduous tree growing up to 16m high which suckers freely with white or grey bark with horizontal lines that becomes rough and darker with age. Buds and young twigs are thickly white and woolly. The dark green leaves are shiny above and white or grey and woolly beneath. Greenish-yellow catkins appear in spring. It invades river banks, vleis and dongas.