Poplar may refer to:
Plants
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Populus
''Populus'' is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. English names variously applied to different species include poplar (), aspen, and cottonwood.
The we ...
'', the plant genus which includes most poplars, as well as aspen and cottonwood
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Black poplar
''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.Flora Europaea''Populus nigra''/ref>
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(''Populus nigra'')
** Carolina or Canadian poplar, ''
Populus × canadensis
''Populus'' × ''canadensis'', known as Canadian poplar or Carolina poplar, is a naturally occurring hybrid of ''Populus nigra'' and ''Populus deltoides''. It is a vigorous, broadly columnar, deciduous tree growing to , which is commonly used by ...
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Grey poplar
Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed o ...
(''Populus × canescens'')
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White poplar White poplar is a common name used to refer to several trees in the genus ''Populus'', including:
* ''Populus alba'', native to Eurasia
* ''Populus grandidentata'', bigtooth aspen
* ''Populus tremuloides
''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous ...
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Populus alba
''Populus alba'', commonly called silver poplar,Webb, C. J.; Sykes, W. R.; Garnock-Jones, P. J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. 4. Christchurch, New Zealand, Botany Division, D.S.I.R. si ...
'', native to Eurasia
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Populus grandidentata
''Populus grandidentata'', commonly called large-tooth aspen, big-tooth aspen, American aspen, Canadian poplar, or white poplar, is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America.
Name
The name ''Populus'' is from the Latin for poplar, and ' ...
'', bigtooth aspen
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Populus tremuloides
''Populus tremuloides'' is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain or golden aspen, tr ...
'', American aspen
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Liriodendron
''Liriodendron'' () is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).
These trees are widely known by the common name tulip tree or tuliptree for their ...
'', the genus of tulip poplars
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Yellow poplar
''Liriodendron tulipifera''—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus ''Liriodendron'' (the other ...
or tulip poplar (''Liriodendron tulipifera'')
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Liriodendron chinense
''Liriodendron chinense'' (commonly known as the Chinese tulip poplar, Chinese tulip tree or Chinese whitewood) is Asia's native species in the genus ''Liriodendron''. This native of central and southern China grows in the provinces of Anhui, Gua ...
'', Chinese tulip poplar
Places
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Poplar, Ontario, a community in the township of Burpee and Mills
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Poplar Creek, British Columbia
Poplar Creek is a ghost town in the West Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. The former mining community is at the mouth of Popular Creek on the southwest side of the Lardeau River. The locality, on BC Highway 31, is about northwest ...
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Poplar, London
Poplar is a district in East London, England, the administrative centre of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, borough of Tower Hamlets. Five miles (8 km) east of Charing Cross, it is part of the East End of London, East End.
It is identi ...
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Poplar High Street
Poplar High Street is a street in Poplar and partly in Blackwall, Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London. Although the street became less used after 1860, it had previously been the principal street in Poplar.
Notable buildings on Poplar H ...
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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar
Poplar was a local government district in the metropolitan area of London, England. It was formed as a district of the Metropolis in 1855 and became a metropolitan borough in the County of London in 1900. It comprised Poplar, Millwall, Bromley ...
(1900–1965)
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Poplar DLR station
Poplar is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Poplar in London, England. Poplar is a cross-platform interchange station for three of the six lines on the DLR (-, Bank- and Tower Gateway-) making it one of the busiest stations on the ne ...
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Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)
Poplar was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency centred on the Poplar, London, Poplar district of the East End of London. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Co ...
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Poplar and Limehouse (UK Parliament constituency)
Poplar and Limehouse is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, constituency created in 2010 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament sinc ...
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Poplar Walk
Poplar Walk is wide footpath running north–south in Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, England.
The footpath runs between The Meadow Building of Christ Church at the junction with Broad Walk to the north and the River Thames near Folly Bridge t ...
, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford
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Poplar, California
Poplar-Cotton Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 2,470 at the 2010 census, up from 1,496 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Poplar-Cotton Center is located at (36.053936, -119.144 ...
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Poplar, Iowa
Poplar is a rural unincorporated community in Audubon County, Iowa, in the United States. It is part of the Poplar Rural District which is recognized as a rural historic district and was the largest rural settlement of Danish immigrants in the Uni ...
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Poplar, Minnesota
Poplar Township is a township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 173 as of the 2000 census. Poplar Township was named from the groves of poplar trees within its borders.
Geography
According to the United States Census B ...
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Poplar, Montana
Poplar is a city in Roosevelt County, Montana, United States. The population was 758 at the 2020 census.
The U.S. Army constructed Camp Poplar here in the 1870s to oversee the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Poplar became reservation headquarte ...
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Poplar, North Carolina
Poplar is an unincorporated community in Mitchell County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located along North Carolina Highway 197 (NC 197), at the banks of the Hollow Poplar Creek and between the southern slopes of the Unaka ...
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Mitchell County
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Poplar, Philadelphia
Poplar is a neighborhood in Lower North Philadelphia. It is located north of Callowhill, between Spring Garden/ Fairmount and Northern Liberties, bounded roughly by Girard Avenue to the north, North Broad Street to the west, Spring Garden Street ...
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Poplar, Virginia Poplar is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlanti ...
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Poplar, Wisconsin
Poplar is a village in Douglas County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 603 at the 2010 census.
U.S. Highway 2, County Road D, and County Road P are the main routes in the community.
Geography
Poplar is located at (46.582014, -91.7 ...
Other uses
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Poplar (convenience store)
is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan.
There are 818 shops in the Chugoku, Kanto, Kansai, Kyushu, and Shikoku regions.
History
Poplar was founded as a liquor shop in Naka-ku, Hiroshima in 1976. The first Poplar shop was opened in Mi ...
, a Japanese company
* Poplar Taneshima, a main character from the ''
Working!!
''Working!!'', released in English territories as ''Wagnaria!!'', is a Japanese Yonkoma, four-panel comic strip manga series written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu, which follows the activities of the unusual employees at one of the unit ...
'' manga and anime series
See also
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Poplar Island (disambiguation) Poplar Island may refer to:
Canada
*Poplar Island (British Columbia)
* Poplar Island (Prince Edward Island)
United Kingdom
*Poplar Island, River Thames
*Poplar Eyot
Poplar Eyot or Poplar Ait is an island in the River Thames in England near the v ...
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Poplar River (disambiguation) Poplar River may refer to:
*Canada
**Manitoba
***Poplar River (Manitoba)
***Poplar River First Nation, a First Nation community astride the river in Manitoba
**Ontario
***Kenora District
****Poplar River (Atikameg River), part of the Kapiskau River ...
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Poplar station (disambiguation) Poplar station can refer to
*Poplar DLR station, a station on the Docklands Light Railway in London
* Poplar station (PAAC), a station on the Pittsburgh light rail network
*Poplar railway station, a former station on the London and Blackwall Railwa ...
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Poplar Tree Incident
Poplar may refer to:
Plants
*''Populus'', the plant genus which includes most poplars, as well as aspen and cottonwood
** Black poplar (''Populus nigra'')
** Carolina or Canadian poplar, ''Populus × canadensis''
** Grey poplar (''Populus × can ...
in Korea
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Popular (disambiguation)
Popularity or social status is the quality of being well liked, admired or well known to a particular group.
Popular may also refer to:
In sociology
* Popular culture
* Popular fiction
* Popular music
* Popular science
* Populace, the total ...
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Populous (disambiguation)
Populous or populus may refer to:
*Populous (series), ''Populous'' (series), video game series
**Populous (video game), ''Populous'' (video game), first video game of the series
*Populous (company), an architectural firm
*''Populus'', a genus of pl ...
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