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Black Poplar
Populus nigra
Populus nigra, the black poplar, is a species of cottonwood poplar, the type species of section Aigeiros of the genus Populus, native to Europe, southwest and central Asia, and northwest Africa.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1155
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.204
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.313
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.335
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.774
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.845
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.856
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47565.