Populus pruinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae, native to Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Xinjiang in China.[2] A halophytic tree usually 10 m (33 ft) tall, but occasionally reaching 20 m (66 ft), it is often found growing in basins.[3][4] Its bark is grayish-yellow, its branchlets and young sprouts are densely tomentulose and gray in color, and its leaves are tomentulose and grayish-blue.[3]

Populus pruinosa
In Yarkant County, Xinjiang, China, 1910
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Genus: Populus
Species:
P. pruinosa
Binomial name
Populus pruinosa
Synonyms[2]
  • Balsamiflua euphratica f. pruinosa (Schrenk) N.Chao & J.Liu
  • Balsamiflua pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura
  • Turanga pruinosa (Schrenk) Kimura

References

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  1. ^ Participants of the FFI/IUCN SSC Central Asian regional tree Red Listing workshop, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (11-13 July 2006). (2007). "Populus pruinosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2007: e.T63496A12670489. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63496A12670489.en. Retrieved 25 July 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b "Populus pruinosa Schrenk". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b "灰胡杨 hui hu yang". Flora of China. efloras.org. 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  4. ^ Yang, Wenlu; Wang, Kun; Zhang, Jian; Ma, Jianchao; Liu, Jianquan; Ma, Tao (2017). "The draft genome sequence of a desert tree Populus pruinosa". GigaScience. 6 (9): 1–7. doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix075. PMC 5603765. PMID 28938721.