Aspen
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Aspen is a common name for certain tree species in the Populus sect. Populus, of the Populus genus. Aspens were referred to as "asps" in earlier forms of English.
Quaking aspens, Populus tremuloides
Aspen seedlings in a nursery
Leaf of Populus grandidentata.
Autumn colour of Populus tremula. (leaf miner flies burrows are visible.)
Basal shoot
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Basal shoots, root sprouts, adventitious shoots, and suckers are words for various kinds of shoots that grow from adventitious buds on the base of a tree or shrub, or from adventitious buds on its roo
A basal shoot emerging from the base of a juvenile tree
Poplar root sprouts (suckers) emerging along the root of an originating tree (not visible)