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Poplar (VSP_27)

DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.

RDF: vsp_27.ttl

Name

poplar

Attribute

VSP Vegetation Species

Definition

Any of various often tall and fast-growing, sometimes narrowly erect, trees of the genus Populus, of the willow family, often with triangular-ovate leaves.

Description

May also be used to describe any of various other trees resembling the poplar: specifically (a) in North America the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera; (b) in Australia either of two trees with leaves like those of many poplars, Homalanthus populifolius, of the spurge family, and (more fully native poplar) Codonocarpus cotinifolius (family Gyrostemonaceae).

Accepted

2016-03-22

Defined by

DFDD

Allowed for

• EC005 Tree
• EC015 Forest

Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.