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Populus alba x tremula (P. x canescens) (Aiton) Smith (Grey Poplar)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Populus alba x tremula (P. x canescens) Plant 27 April 2002 Berks England 14 9

Suggested Literature

Populus alba x tremula (P. x canescens) may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
SALICACEAE
(poplars and willows)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Populus alba x tremula (P. x canescens):

is foodplant of Dorytomus tremulae - a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) UK/Ireland Questionable Morris, M.G., 2002
is associate of fruitbody Hebeloma vaccinum - a poisonpie (Agaricales: Bolbitiaceae) Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on soil]
leaf (skeletonised) skeletonised leaf is decayed by long stalked apothecium Rutstroemia conformata - a discomycete (Helotiales: Rutstroemiaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf, sapling leaf of sapling is grazed by adult Zeugophora subspinosa - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae) Cox, M.L., 2007 [perforates and skeletonises the leaf]
stump (large) (dead) dead stump (large) is decayed by fruitbody Rigidoporus ulmarius - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
trunk (base) (live) live trunk (base) is parasitised by fruitbody Perenniporia fraxinea - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
trunk (base) (live) live trunk (base) is decayed by fruitbody Perenniporia fraxinea - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Polyporaceae) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
trunk (large) (live) live trunk (large) is parasitised by fruitbody Rigidoporus ulmarius - a bracket fungus (Polyporales: Meripilaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
twig (dead, attached) dead, attached twig is decayed by erumpent through small slits in bark conidioma of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph Diaporthe putator - a valsoid pyrenomycete (Diaporthales: Valsaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
wood (dead, decayed) dead, decayed wood is decayed by fruitbody Phellinus lundellii - a bracket fungus (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Populus alba x tremula (P. x canescens) may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Populus
(poplars)

References

Cox, M.L., 2007 Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Morris, M.G., 2002 True Weevils (Part I): Family Curculionidae, subfamilies Raymondionyminae to Smicronychinae

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