Populus x canadensis Moench, 1785

Verloove, Filip, 2021, New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands), Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 62878-62878 : 62878

Populus x canadensis Moench, 1785

Populus x canadensis Verz. Ausländ. Bäume 81. 1785.

Distribution

TENERIFE: Puerto de la Cruz, barranco San Felipe, dry riverbed, a single individual (self-sown), 16.01.2017, F. Verloove 12752 (BR); Puerto de la Cruz, barranco San Felipe, dry gravelly riverbed, a single self-sown tree ca. 400 cm tall (also planted nearby), 17.12.2019, F. Verloove 12752 (BR). https://observation.org/observation/205286560/

Notes

Populus x canadensis is a hybrid of P. nigra L. and P. deltoides Marshall. It occurs naturally in areas where both species grow sympatrically, but is also very widely grown as an ornamental tree. It rather grows in temperate climates and is thus less frequently seen in the Canary Islands.

In Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife, trees planted on the verge of a ravine in an urban environment have reproduced from seed. This hybrid had not been reported before from the Canary Islands ( Acebes Ginovés et al. 2010).