Where found:

• Throughout Taranaki - best poplar for coastal ringplain.
  
• Shelter and shade plantings. Prefers deep fertile ash soils.
  
• Exposed paddocks away from possum habitat such as native bush.
  

• Medium to tall upright deciduous tree, usually with one main leader and conical crown with medium spread.
  
• Smooth leaf with finely serrated (teeth) margins. Flushes yellow/bronze around the second week of September.
• Male flowers usually appear when the tree is at least 5 years old. Densely arranged in hanging catkins that usually appear before the leaves.
  
• Young bark is fairly smooth, roughening with age. Greyish-brown in colour.
  
• Salt/wind tolerant. Requires occasional summer rainfall.
  
• Very palatable to possums.
  
• Subject to minor leaf spot and rust at the end of the growing season.
  
• Used for timber, shade (on ringplain), shelter (mainly free draining ash soils on ringplain), stock fodder.

Planting for timber

• Rotation: 20 years
  
• Wood properties: pale coloured, low density with fine even texture. Susceptible to sapstain and tension wood leading to difficulties drying and sawing. Tough and resistant to splitting. Easy to work, glue and stain.
  
• Used for joinery, flooring, veneer, boxes, crates, fence battens, gates, decking and pulp.