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Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides

Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides. No Vascular System? Spores Fonds No Wood Wind Wind Asexual Reproduction. A. B. C. Vascular System Cones (Seeds) Needles Wood Water Water Sexual Reproduction. Both Flowers (Seeds) Leaves Uhhh , both? Motile Pollinator Motile Disperser Both.

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Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides

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  1. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides No Vascular System? Spores Fonds No Wood Wind Wind Asexual Reproduction A B C Vascular System Cones (Seeds) Needles Wood Water Water Sexual Reproduction Both Flowers (Seeds) Leaves Uhhh, both? Motile Pollinator Motile Disperser Both Magnoliphyta Mostly!

  2. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Kingdom Plantae • Division Magnoliophyta • Class Magnoliopsida • Order Malpighiales • Family Salicaceae • Genus Populus • Species tremuloides

  3. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Located in mountains of North America

  4. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Deciduous These trees lose their leaves in the winter months and basically shut down when conditions are harsh.

  5. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Leaves rotate on a flat stem and “quake” or tremble in the wind giving these plants their name.

  6. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Reproduce sexually and asexually • Sexual reproduction from catkins that use wind to pollinate. They aren’t very successful.

  7. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Reproduce sexually and asexually • Sexual reproduction from catkins that use wind to pollinate. They aren’t very successful. • Asexual reproduction through budding. VERY successful

  8. Quaking AspenPopulus tremuloides • Asexual reproduction so successful that Aspen are the largest plants on earth, sometimes extending over miles of hillside all connected underground.

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