What Is The Scientific Name Of Quaking Aspen? (ANSWERS)
SCIENTIFIC NAME OF QUAKING ASPEN – In this topic, we are going to know and identify the binomial or scientific name of quaking aspen.
Also known as trembling aspen, American aspen, mountain or golden aspen, trembling poplar, white poplar, and popple, it is a deciduous tree which is home to the colder areas of North America.
The tree trunks reach up to 25 meters or 82 feet tall. They are usually smooth pale bark, scarred with black. Their leaves are glossy green leaves whhich turns to golden to yellow or red in autumn.
It is the most widely distributed tree in North America and is the state tree of Utah.
It is named quaking aspen due to the quaking or trembling of the leaves caused by its flexible flattened petioles.
Scientific Name
The binomial name of quaking aspen is Populus tremuloides.
The genus Populus, commonly known as aspen, poplar, and cottonwood, is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae. Populus is the New Latin term for “poplar”.
The species tremuloides is a combination of two Latin words “tremulus” meaning shaking, quaking, quivering, trembling, tremulous, and “-oides”, referring to its trembling behavior.
