"symplastless" wrote in message
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote in message
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"elalamein" wrote in message
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Please dont get moralistic over this; believe me this job isn't
something I will relish. However it has to be done. A neighbour has
planted four Poplar trees on his/my boundary fence.

He is an idiot. Poplar trees have only one real use, that is on a farm
out in Kansas to use as a windbreak, planted hundreds of feet from the
house. You really have to get on with killing these things as quick as
you can. These are weeds!

If you know so much about these trees please explain 5 anatomy differences
between the woody root of a poplar and a woody stem of a poplar?


There are differences?

The only differences I ever saw was the woody root was below the
ground, and the woody stem was above the ground. The second that the
woody root erupted through the surface of the ground (and from what I
saw just about all of the roots did this eventually, or so it seemed) it
immediately
turned into a stem, and a new poplar tree sprang to life. Or it did until I
ran over it with my dad's lawnmower.

There were weekends mowing that lawn that the -only- thing that had
grown during the week was the poplar suckers.

If your such an expert, name 5 things that poplar wood is used for
OTHER than burning or making paper.

Ted