Talk:Populus sect. Aigeiros

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Do people ever use its cotton like they do with cotton plant? --Menchi 07:43, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

How long do they live?

What if they are oozing a watery type substance and it is dripping down ontot he concrete below.... is this a sign of disease?

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In answer to a few of the above questions: I am not sure how long cottonwoods can live, but they can reach respectable sizes and are not as fragile as one might think.

As for the cotton, I don't think it has any commercial value. Some people can be bothered by it, and it does clog up air vents, such as air conditioner compressors. Plant male trees (which don't produce the cottony seeds) to avoid this problem.

In answer to the last question, this sounds like bugs on the tree or some disease that is not unique to cottonwoods.

Species

Is the Plains cottonwood (populus sargentii) also known as populus monilifera or populus molinifera? 122.27.97.30 (talk) 04:48, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

The name

So why's it called a cottonwood? The article says nothing about it.

cottonwood

why is the cottonwood different then other trees —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.224.156.235 (talk) 21:51, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

cottonwood

why is the cottonwood different than other trees? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.224.156.235 (talk) 22:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Cotton Wood trees

I lived in Colorado as a child, The Cotton Wood Trees were so tall, so lovely to hear breeses through them in summer and spring, mermering leaves, soft and it makes you relax and lye down in the grass and look up, the leaves mermer makes you relax and fall asleep . ! Sweet memories from child hood. I was lucky to have these trees in my life, it inspired me to become a painter ! The rest of the yard was large, filled with plants, bushes , flowers, garden of foods, grass, apple trees, plum, lilacks, mushrooms, wild asparagus, berries, grapes, ....It was a loveing feel of nature, then. Now I live in Egypt. Life is so filled with new adventures !!

   Sincerely, 
  Carrol or Amina Kishk ````````  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.232.10.228 (talk) 08:51, 21 March 2009 (UTC) 

Redirect from disambiguation page

Would someone correct the redirect from Cottonwood tree, that currently leads to a disambiguation page for Cottonwood, to Populus sect. Aegiros. A disambiguation redirect is not necessary as a key word would be tree.

Etymology

Does anyone have a source for the section being named after the village? It seems more likely that it is simply from the (Ancient?) Greek word for 'black poplar' - αἴγειρος. IntelVoid (talk) 23:31, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

The original author doesn't state an etymology, and since that is entirely up to that author ("It's not named after the goddess Athena, it's named after my dog."), the statement here is pure speculation. I'll remove it. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 12:50, 30 August 2016 (UTC)