Populus adenopoda Maxim.

Used for timber, construction, making furniture, farm tools, and wood pulp.

Trees to 30 m tall; bark grayish white, smooth, becoming dark gray, furrowed; crown ovoid. Old branches grayish brown, glabrous; branchlets slender or robust, dull reddish brown pubescent. Buds conical, viscid, glabrous. Petiole very laterally flattened, 2-8(-12) cm, tomentose or downy; leaf blade ovate-orbicular or ovate, 5-15 × 4-7(-13) cm, abaxially grayish green, densely pubescent when young, adaxially dark green, glabrous or downy along veins, shiny, base truncate or cordate, rarely subrounded or cuneate, with 2 raised glands, margin incurved, glandular crenate-serrate or loosely or coarsely dentate, apex long acuminate or caudate. Male catkin 6-10 cm. Male flower: disc dentate-lobed. Fruiting catkin 12-20(-30) cm; rachis pilose; bracts palmatiparted, brown, obovate-elliptic, ca. 2.5 mm, ciliate. Capsule long ovoid-ellipsoid, (2-)4-6 mm, glabrous, 2-valved, shortly stipitate, apex acute. Seeds dark. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Apr-May.

Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang

* Mountain slopes; 300-2500 m.

Populus adenopoda, known commonly as the Chinese aspen, is a species of poplar found in the subtropical regions of China. The trees can reach a maximum height of 30 metres, and occur on mountain slopes at elevations of 300–2500 metres. Wood from the trees is used in construction and furniture production, as well as timber, farm tools, and wood pulp.