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Quaking Aspen Seeds In A Cup® Grow Kit

Populus tremuloides

From the first seed to the next new leaf. Explore your plant’s growing conditions, seasonal rhythm, and everyday care.

THE PLANT NOTEBOOK

Quaking Aspen care, from seed onward.

Fast-growing pioneer. Needs full sun. Spreads aggressively via root suckers.

Seeds are extremely short-lived. Your Seeds In A Cup® kit uses fresh-harvested seeds from the current season.

By seed or root cuttings.

Entire forests can be a single organism connected by a root system.

Mountain slopes and recently burned or logged areas.

Highest cold tolerance of any deciduous tree; survives to -70°F.

Cankers and tent caterpillars.

Safe; bark contains salicin (precursor to aspirin).

A deciduous tree with smooth white bark and flattened leaf stalks (petioles) that cause leaves to 'quake'. Grows in clonal colonies.

Standard native species.

Wood used for matchsticks and paper pulp. Iconic for its golden autumn color

The most widely distributed tree in North America.

Secure; clonal colonies can be thousands of years old.

Latin ‘tremuloides’ referring to the trembling or quaking of the leaves in the wind.

The 'Pando' colony in Utah is one of the world's oldest and heaviest living organisms.

TURN KNOWING INTO GROWING

There is no confirmed kit match for quaking aspen in the current catalog. Explore the collection or ask us about this plant.

THE GROWING CONVERSATION

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