Why Poplar Trees Are Invasive (What To Do If You Have One)

Treejourney ^ | 8/8/22 | Zack Deangelis

[DallasBiff]

Well it has been a wet spring, and it seems the Poplar trees are spreading their seeds very vigourously, went outdoors and the poplar seeds were everywhere in the air, not good for allergies.

[reed13k]

City uses them on the curb along my rode - have one right outside my house and i’m trimming back the suckers on the roots several times a year....I’d cut it down but I’m not allowed to....

[packrat35]

Poison works.

[griffin]

make smooth cabin wall logs. silky smooth!

[z3n]

Not all threes are poplar to Zach

[Dr. Franklin]

A plant is invasive because it is not native to a particular geographic area, not because it grows and spreads quickly. I believe they make pencils and chop sticks from poplar because it regrows quickly, and that makes it cheap to harvest.

[Lurker]

Pound a couple copper nails into the trunk.

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[metmom]

If you cut the tree and treat the inner bark with a very concentrated treatment of glyphosate, it will go into the roots and kill the roots.

Same treatment for tree of heaven.

Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) - Identification & Control (without causing it to sucker!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHsSCn6L450

[metmom]

Ping

[dfwgator]

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I lived in Jerome, AZ for a while, and tree of heaven (called paradise tree around there) is everywhere. It destroyed a lot of older sidewalks and building foundations, especially while Jerome was a semi-ghost town in the 60s and 70s.

[GingisK]

We had a rather tall poplar tree years ago. Six lightning strikes later we have a stump.

[Red Badger]

To kill a tree simply cur a inch deep continuous circle around the trunk. It will die. Then the county will have to cut it down.............

[T.B. Yoits]

I’d cut it down but I’m not allowed to...

Girdle the trunk.

[rlmorel]

I have to say, we must have some common background because all of your obscure references smack right into my funny bone!

[j.havenfarm]

I planted a number when I had acreage. They’re still a poplar choice for such applications

[lurk]

Poplar trees send out roots to spread. They love your sewer lines.

[kinsman redeemer]

I hate those trees! Terrible firewood.

But I don’t hate them as much as Ailanthus. The worst!

[kinsman redeemer]

GREAT MINDS - !

I read yours after I wrote mine!!

[kinsman redeemer]

Put thee loader on the stump of these trees... They come up nice!