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Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood, western balsam-poplar or California poplar, is a deciduous broadleaf tree species native to western North America. It is used for timber, and is notable as a model organism in plant biology. Its full genome sequence was published in 2006. It is the first tree species to be sequenced.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [1]  350 lbf (159 kgf) Very Soft
Specific Gravity [2]  0.35

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Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dicerca tenebrica (Flatheaded Poplar Borer)[5]
Melampsora allii-populina[5]
Melampsora laricis-populina[5]
Poecilonota cyanipes (Eastern Poplar Buprestid)[5]

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Citations

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♦ 1Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 2Forest Inventory and Analysis DB version 5.1, May 4, 2013, U.S. Forest Service
♦ 3National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 7Tamiasciurus douglasii, Michael A. Steele, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 630, pp. 1-8 (1999)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0