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427 – Balsam Poplar: Tree of the Far North
The shiny resin on balsam poplar buds turns to airborne molecules during spring leaf-out. Those molecules contain a myriad of chemicals that are useful to the tree -- and beneficial to us! Thriving in the far north -- farther than any other broadleaf tree in North America -- balsam poplar is poised to make drastic changes to the tundra as summer temperatures warm. The post 427 – Balsam Poplar: Tree of the Far North first appeared on Cable Natural History Museum.
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