CATTON ARBORETUM
Populus Tremula
Common name: European Aspen or Quaking Aspen
Year planted: 2025
Country of origin: Native British Tree
Year introduced: Natural occuring in UK
Description: An uncommon tree which can grow to 25m with dark grey bark. Leaves are round and large and can shimmer or quake in the lightest winds. Trees are male or female with different colour catkins. It is not known what this tree is yet. Young leaves are coppery in colour before turning green. In Celtic mythology, the visual effect of an aspen trembling in the wind was said to be the tree communicating between this world and the next.
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Tree number: 153
Year planted: 2025
Country of origin: Native British Tree
Year introduced: Natural occuring in UK
Description: An uncommon tree which can grow to 25m with dark grey bark. Leaves are round and large and can shimmer or quake in the lightest winds. Trees are male or female with different colour catkins. It is not known what this tree is yet. Young leaves are coppery in colour before turning green. In Celtic mythology, the visual effect of an aspen trembling in the wind was said to be the tree communicating between this world and the next.
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Tree number: 153
