The bark of older trees is deeply furrowed. The Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii), also known as the western cottonwood or the Rio Grande cottonwood, occurs in California east to Utah and ...

Fremont fed his horses the inner bark of cottonwood trees during a brutal ... The trees would later be dubbed Populus fremontii in his honor. These beautiful deciduous canopy trees are ...

In a single day, one Fremont cottonwood drinks more water than a huge saguaro cactus would need for several lifetimes. Stark evidence of this thirst can be found in small desert creeks that flow ...

There are three main species are Populus deltoids (eastern cottonwood), Populus fremontii (Fremont’s cottonwood), and the Populus nigra (black poplar). They can grow to be 80 feet tall and do ...

The study, published in October in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at the iconic Fremont cottonwood, which has great ecological importance because of its capacity to ...

While the leaves of all cottonwood varieties have alternating flat stems, black cottonwood leaves are more oval-like. Comparatively, the leaves of eastern and Fremont varieties are triangular. Fremont ...