Tree Species - Poplar (Quaking Aspen) Traditional Cache
Tree Species - Poplar (Quaking Aspen)
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I am placing this series to help you identify the different tree varieties. The cache is hidden at the base of the tree being identified.
I found an area on the ET that needed a cache and figured I would fill it in while I was here.
The poplars are four primary species of cottonwoods and an aspen native to North America. The Eastern Cottonwood, Populus deltoides, is one of the largest North American hardwood trees. The aspen, featured here, has the widest range in the United States. It occurs throughout the eastern United States and throughout Canada. Yellow poplar is not a true poplar and not listed here.
Common Names: quaking aspen, trembling aspen, golden aspen, quiver-leaf aspen, small-toothed aspen, Canadian aspen, quakie, popple
Habitat: Aspen trees occupy pure stands on sandy gravelly slopes, the only transcontinental broadleaf tree growing from Newfoundland to California and Mexico. It is often associated with Douglas fir. An aspen tree is a pioneer tree after fires and logging, the most wind-sensitive leaf of any broadleaf species.
Description: The circular to triangular leaves gives this species its name, each leaf trembling in the slightest breeze at the end of a long, flattened stem. The thin, damage-prone bark is light green and smooth with bands of warty bumps.
Uses: furniture parts, matches, boxes, pulp
The cache is a small lock-n-lock container with camo tape containing the log and a few trade items. There is a shiney new bison tube with a fresh log ready to be hidden for the FTF
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