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Populus fremontii
Tree with heart shaped green leaves.
Spotted by freeway during hike to Lake Hodges in Escondido.
Lat: 33.06, Long: -117.12
Spotted on Aug 6, 2011
Submitted on Aug 8, 2011
10 Comments
Thanks for the link Ashish.
Hi.. This is juvenile stage of this mid size tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_fre...
Afraid not Ashish, I spotted this while hiking in California so it's probably native.
ScottRasmussen, I definitely saw the resemblance in your link with the leaves, but I never did see any of the growth from your link. However it is the most closely related species so far. Thank you for the ID! And thanks Emma as well! :)
Thnx for the expert advice Scott.!!
The link in that spotting also refers to Fremont Cottonwood, but the tree in those pictures is a Western Redbud.
@ Coral and @ Scott is there any similarity bet this spotting?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/687...
It's an aspen or cottonwood, genus Populus, but I'm not sure what grows in CA besides P. tremuloides, Quaking Aspen. The leaves seem too triangular for Quaking Aspen, Fremont Cottonwood maybe? http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_...
The leaves are nearly heart shaped.
Could this be a black cottonwood tree?