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Lombardy Poplar

Populus nigra 'Italica'
Lombardy Poplar

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Lombardy Poplar Details:

Plant Facts
Mature Height
40 - 60 feet
Mature Spread
10 - 15 feet
Soil Type
Widely Adaptable
Moisture
Widely Adaptable
Mature Form
Narrow, Columnar
Growth Rate
Rapid
Sun Exposure
Full Sun
Flower Color
Green Catkins
Fall Color
Yellow
Foliage Color
Green
3-9

The Lombardy Poplar tree, Populus nigra, is a fast growing, tall, columnar tree with bright green leaves with a silver underside. These trees are used to form quick windbreaks, while longer-lived, slower growing trees mature. A great plant for a fast growing windbreak or screen.

For screening plant 5’ to 8’ apart in the row. These deciduous trees have moderate to high water requirements, and is moderate in its tolerance to salt and alkali. Keeping the Lombardy Poplar watered and fertilized is important for longevity. Widely used because they are graceful and they provide fast borders and screens.

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  Robust Beauty, 9/5/2006 9:13:51 PM
Reviewer: Heath
While the Lombardy Poplar my get some flack for sending out root suckers and being susceptible to canker, I maintain that with reasonable watering and feeding, the Lombardy Poplar is perhaps one of the most stately, beautifully graceful trees I have come in contact with, throughout the US. It is magnificent in long avenues, with its golden autumn foliage lighting the way, or with its dark glossy summer leaves trembling in a gentle breeze. Its impressive height and columnar form make for an eye-catching silhouette from a distance. All that wrapped up in robust growth make for a splendid addition to just about any landscape.

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  n/a, 12/15/2006 11:08:21 AM
Reviewer: seasonal
Do the leaves fall off in the winter? I am in zone 9

Answer from Nature Hills: The Lombardy Poplar is deciduous so the leaves will fall off each fall.


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  short lived weeds, 5/27/2007 11:25:19 PM
Reviewer: twetty
A neighbor planted a few of these trees. They grow quickly and very tall: sometimes crooked. They block other trees and one has a split trunk. One side of this tree is dead and we are in danger of it falling on our house.

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  Poor choice, 6/6/2007 4:42:43 PM
Reviewer: Cincy Rod
Although this tree grows very fast, I am disappointed in the way it looks and how thin they are. Since planting my trees, Ive also heard that they only last 10 years and will then die.

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  Hank, 6/15/2007 4:31:07 PM
Reviewer: Hank
Planted 12 as a fast growing screen in East Tennessee. They did grow rapidly and in about 8 yrs began to die out. Very disappointing

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  Memories, 6/16/2007 8:17:29 PM
Reviewer: DMZ
As a young boy growing up, my Dad planted about 12 of these along the back fence line in our back yard. They grew about 40 ft tall and did a great job shielding us from the traffic on a bridge just beyond our back yard. By the time I hit my college days all but 1 was still alive. Very nice tree.

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  Identity ofother varieties of "Lombardy", 10/23/2007 2:12:10 PM
Reviewer: Botnee
A variety of Populus nigra other than Lombardy seems to occur, unrecognized, in US, and is more common in Europe. I has a broader base outline, is still columnar & its leaf similar, is larger, and long-lived, more than 50 yrs. I found it planted in N. Wis at 90X 14 trunk circumference, and belive it to be var. plantierensis (see on internet from Europe), Communication from amateurs or experts welcome to solve this identity. -- Botanist in WV

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  Most "Lombardys" in the US are Plantierensis, 1/7/2009 6:49:54 PM
Reviewer: rplalor
I have a property on the Chesapeake in VA that has 40+ "Lombardy" Poplars/Plantierensis, planted around 1965 and still doing very well. Over the last decade I have lost one every couple of years to big winds (they tend to snap at the bottom of the trunk), but otherwise they are healthy and truly magnificent trees.

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