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Populus balsamifera is the northernmost North American hardwood, growing transcontinentally on boreal and montane upland and flood plain sites, and attaining its best development on flood plains. It is a hardy, fast-growing tree which is generally short lived, but some trees as old as 200 years have been found. [7]
Abies balsamea or balsam fir is a North American fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada (Newfoundland west to central Alberta) and the northeastern United States (Minnesota east to Maine, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia).
Populus section Tacamahaca – balsam poplars (North America, Asia; cool temperate) Populus angustifolia – willow-leaved poplar or narrowleaf cottonwood (central North America) Populus balsamifera – Balsam poplar (northern North America) (= P. candicans , P. tacamahaca )
Native ash species, including white ash (pictured), have been declining rapidly this century due to predation by the emerald ash borer. [1]Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees.
Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood, [1] western balsam-poplar [2] or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber , and is notable as a model organism in plant biology .
The balsam poplar P. balsamifera (= P. tacamahaca, P. candicans) is a native of North America, where it grows on alluvial bottomlands in the northeastern United States and Canada. It grows to a height of 30 metres and has yellow-grey bark, thick and furrowed, and coloured blackish at the base of the trunk.
Case in point: Just about anything from Balsam Hill, which has quickly become the biggest name in artificial Christmas trees, with selections ranging from modest Charlie Brown firs (from $349 ...
Most trees native to the Canadian boreal are conifers, with needle leaves and cones. These include: black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, larch (tamarack), lodgepole pine, and jack pine. A few are broad-leaved species: trembling and large-toothed aspen, cottonwood and white birch, and balsam poplar. [24]