Poplar Black

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Black poplar (lat. Populus nigra) - a plant with numerous advantages belongs to the genus Poplar (Lat. Populus) of the Willow family (Lat. Salicaceae). The ubiquitous tree of the largest part of the land, called Eurasia, is so multifunctional that it is difficult to imagine the life of this territory without its presence. Poplar flowers are fed with bees' nectar; wood is used in construction; essential oil, dyes and tannins are in demand by the light industry; healing abilities help maintain human health, and the beauty of the tree adorns gardens, parks and roadsides.

What's in your name

If people have not found a common opinion about the semantic roots of the Latin name of the genus "Populus", then the specific epithet "nigra" does not cause controversy. In Russian it sounds like the word "black".

The tree owes this specific epithet to the color of its bark. Although Poplar bark is dark brown in color, it often looks black, which is the reason for the name.

Black Poplar has many synonymous names, among which the most common is “

Osokor ».

Description

Poplar is a very hardy and resilient tree. A powerful root system, sometimes consisting of several tiers diverging to the sides and into the depths of adventitious roots, is a reliable protector of a tall tree from gusty winds walking on the earth's surface. For its two hundred years of life Black poplar can grow up to forty meters. If a tree happens to fall under the ax of a lumberjack, then the numerous shoots fed by the roots remaining in the ground will quickly restore its life, growing from the buds of the unfortunate stump that are dormant for the time being.

Vessels with nutritious sap, piercing the straight trunk of the tree, are reliably protected by thick dark gray or dark brown bark, often appearing black. Over the years, the bark begins to crack, weakening the protection of the tree from external forces.

The thick branches of the tree form an ovoid or broad crown, rustling with their simple, solid petioled leaves in the wind. Charming leaves of an oval-triangular or diamond-shaped shape along the edge are decorated with crenate-serrate denticles. On the bare surface of the leaf plate, thin veins are clearly visible, fanning out from the main vein, drawing extraordinary vivid pictures.

Black poplar is a more mature creation of nature, and therefore its individuals were divided into male and female. With the arrival of steady spring warmth, earring inflorescences are born, each floor on its own tree. The wind is responsible for pollination. He also carries ripe seeds around the world, equipped with light hairs that help flights.

The seeds take root easily and give amicable shoots, which gain height and stability very quickly.

Healing abilities

Poplar is such a familiar element of the urban landscape that the townspeople do not even think about its healing abilities. Although even official medicine recognizes the medicinal abilities of the Black Poplar, which are hidden in its leaves, bark, and the leaf buds of the tree are especially famous in this regard.

If flying poplar fluff causes an allergic reaction in some people, then the black poplar buds are famous for their anti-allergic abilities. In addition, the rich composition of biologically active substances in the buds of the tree, collected at the time of the beginning of sap flow, that is, in the middle of the spring, determines their antiseptic, analgesic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal properties.

Pharmacists make drugs from the black poplar kidneys that help with problems of the genitourinary organs, digestive and respiratory organs, nervous disorders and many other ailments.

Traditional healers see in Black Poplar much more abilities, and therefore use the extract and tincture from the kidneys in a wider range, which includes the treatment of tuberculosis and the fight against malignant tumors.