Large Poplar (Aspen) in New Brunswick?

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, the timing was a bit off for large toothed. Notice how the leaves was just emerging in mid June on my large-toothed shots. There as slow as hardwood to emerge.

[2bearslumber]

The photo of the bark looks like the poplar we've been cutting here in Maine. We have a couple of different species of poplar. I don't know their names. One dies off quite young, but the other ones do get quite large. We boarded in an addition to our garage with some of those poplar boards. Nailed 'em on green. They shrunk quite a bit, but we didn't mind for what we used 'em for.

When planed some of that poplar has a bird's eye quality. Quite pretty. But it doesn't seem to be a very strong wood.

[SwampDonkey]

You can probably distinuish the 2 or 3 species down your way if ya kinda keep your eyes peeled during the times of year mentioned in this thread.

balsam poplar have medium sized leaves (obovate-shaped) with sticky buds.

large toothed have small-medium round-shaped leaves with large teeth  on the margins.

trembling (quaking) aspen have small round leaves with tiny teeth along leave margins.

Large-toothed and trembling (quaking) aspen have similar wood properties. The bark difference is usually lighter in color on the trembling and more greenish gray on the large-toothed.

[SwampDonkey]

Just bringing this thread forward with some pictures of large toothed aspen bark. This stand was thinned in 2001. The bark looks almost like sugar maple doesn't it? I think I mentioned this in this thread or in another thread. Now if I didn't tell ya and show ya, you wouldn't have know'd. Not all stands of large toothed aspen exhibit this white blotching. This stand was a couple of woodlots north of my uncle's woodlot.

[jon12345]

I remember my dendro. lab professor saying somethin about an orangish tinge to the bark on the big tooth, but then again, I've been wrong before...

[SwampDonkey]

jon, I've also seen that coloration on large toothed aspen. I can't remember it being really noticeable, but just a 'hint' of orange. 

[Max sawdust]

Northern Wisconsin has both Big tooth and Quaking Aspen.  Without a leaf to look at (less than 80 foot up ) I identify the mature trees by looking up at the boltwood below the crown.  Quaking has a distinctly white to blotchy white color, Big Tooth looks greenish on the bolt wood.

If you can get a leaf it is real easy to tell them apart.
Max

[SwampDonkey]

I could show ya bark pictures of trembling that look like white birch from a distance, as white as snow. Then I could show ya bark as green as snot.

[SwampDonkey]

Been noticing this year that alot of large toothed aspen are turning orange instead of the typical yellow we associate with aspen trees.  I'll try to get a picture when the trees are fully turned.

On some aerial photos taken in early fall I've mistaken large tooth groves for maple stands untill I've walked into the stand to discover they were aspen.

[SwampDonkey]

Large toothed aspen with orange fall foliage.

[Max sawdust]

Mid fall is here in Northern Wisconsin.  Aspens just dropped most of their leaves.  (They were pretty this year, lots of orange like in SD's photo.)  our RO is very colorfully this year too, but no acorns.
Max

[SwampDonkey]

This morning was heavy frost here and I was out on the woodlot before moon set (see Sky scene thread). Alot of leaves will fall today, and as the sun was warming up the leaf surfaces on the aspen and maples, they were falling big time. The mountain in mostly bare now (see Windmill thread) except the aspens , beech and the red oak. Another couple of weeks and she's gonna be alot more bare.

[Peakebrook]

I have some very large Big Toothed Aspen on my property as well.  We have no pulp market in the area.  Any use for the lumber?

[beenthere]

Peakerbrook
It can make great lumber for construction in dimension or in boards.