Already, the Merlins were starting to popple and belch.

The name means land of the quaking aspens.

Clusters of spruce and pillowy, orange quaking aspens carpet the middle ground.

Many greenway areas have quaking aspens and willow groves.

This aspen usually grows in even-aged, mixed stands, most commonly with quaking aspens.

The two main species are both called 'trembling aspens' or 'quaking aspens' on account of their leaves.

Bigtooth and quaking aspens frequently dominated the postdisturbance forests.

The army entered a grove of quaking aspens, their white trunks and silvery leaves glistening brightly in the sunlight.

Alone in the church, he stood in the center aisle, transfixed, trembling like the quaking aspens in the park.

Less well-studied Quaking Aspens in Utah may be 80 hectares in extent and one million years old.

Aspen stands dominated by bigtooth aspens are generally more open than those dominated by quaking aspens.

Ponderosa pines rise high on either side of us and quaking aspens, yellow-leafed this time of year, shine like Liberace's gold lamé blazers.

Under this standard, the oldest living organism is a grove of quaking aspens in Utah known as Pando, at perhaps as much as 80,000 years old.

Lodgepole pine forests interspersed with stands of quaking aspens are fire-resilient forests that dominate the central and north-central Rocky Mountains.

The more northern, colder, wetter zones are defined by Douglas-firs, Cascadian species (such as western hemlock), lodgepole pines/quaking aspens, or firs mixed with spruce.

MAYBE it's growing up under a bowl of bluebird-colored sky, or among groves of quaking aspens, or surrounded by snow that falls and falls and never turns black.

We were dripping with sweat and our ponies quivering and trembling like quaking aspens, when, after more than an hour of the most violent exertion, we finally got the herd quieted again.

The Southwest deserts are horizon-stretching expanses of sage, scrub and cacti that abut western mountain ranges, where abundant wildflowers in spring and electric-yellow quaking aspens in fall inspire pilgrimages.

Scientists in Colorado have nominated a new candidate for the title: a 106-acre, 6,000-ton stand of genetically identical quaking aspens, cloned naturally from a single individual and growing from a single root system in Utah.

In the American Fork Canyon and the smaller upland canyons that feed into it, the quaking aspens on the hillsides mask the telltale markings of the geological faults that beckoned late 19th-century prospectors.

As a result, Mr. McGhie was up on the Washburns' roof, attaching an antenna and trying to avoid one of the great hazards of wireless access in Utah: the trees, notably the quaking aspens.

Kkrest'ayle kke ottine ('dwellers among the quaking aspens' or 'trembling aspen people') lived in the boreal forests between Great Slave Lake in the south and Great Bear Lake in the north.

We paused at the deserted park entrance, took pictures in a grove of quaking aspens and caught our first sight of Picacho del Diablo when we turned onto what looked like a reasonably good dirt road leading to the trail up a peak called Blue Bottle.

On this day, it was utterly deserted, a milelong stretch of white sand bordered by high dunes and maritime forest, a tough-looking expanse of gnarled Japanese pines, holly bushes, cottonwoods, bayberry, quaking aspens and Virginia creepers, with bright red stems and clusters of blue berries.

The road wound through low rolling hills covered with stunted cedars, beyond which rose a range of mountains, whose sides were clothed with pine, the dark green of which was broken occasionally by irregular patches of quaking aspens, the whole mellowed and softened and mysterized by an enveloping purple haze.

The two main species are both called 'trembling aspens' or 'quaking aspens' on account of their leaves.

Trembling aspens, their leaves shimmering in the light like sequined dresses, appeared now that we were in the montane region, about 5,000 feet.

Coniferous hosts are affected in late spring through early August, and trembling aspens and poplars from early summer to late fall.

Approaching the rundown cabin, the men drove through a grove of aspens, called "quakies" for the way their leaves danced in the lightest breeze.

It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, Quakies, mountain or golden aspen, trembling poplar, white poplar, popple, and even more names.

One gorgeous autumn day when all the mountain aspens looked like a picture postcard from heaven, Amarante had a conversation with Sally.

I set out along a road lined with golden aspens and studied the face of every driver coming the other way.

Red sumacs, orange maples, golden aspens, wine-dark ash leaves.

In October, tourists from Santa Fe and Taos usually head to the mountains of golden aspens and azure skies or to the annual hot-air balloon fiesta, held in Albuquerque.

The populations of rowan, grey alder, trembling poplar and hackberry are relatively big.

(Note the use of cowboy vernacular such as quakie (Populus tremuloides, trembling poplar or aspen know as a "quakie tree").

Eragon, Saphira, and Orik bivouacked for the night at the southernmost end of Silverwood Forest, which lay along Lake Tüdosten and was named so because it was composed almost entirely of beeches, willows, and trembling poplars.

Back outside, the wind filled the air with white poplar seeds.

He pointed to a white poplar on a hill and said it was a European immigrant.

White poplar is also an environmental weed in South Africa.

The wood used by Donatello is that of White poplar.

The introduced white poplar is escaping from cultivation.

White poplar was first introduced to North America in 1748 and has a long history in cultivation.

Like other plants associated with Pluto, white poplar was regarded as a contraceptive in antiquity.

To me, as well as being my old mate, he's a fine, outstanding example of a White Poplar.

The promenade was also restored with the planting of many white poplars and European hackberry trees.

The White Poplar, by contrast, is native to warmer regions, with hot, dry summers.

White poplar may refer to several trees in the genus Populus:

But my White Poplar has outstripped them all.

Then come black locusts, white pines, white oaks and white poplars.

What looks like a curtain of white poplars lines the edge of the forest; their shiny leaves flicker lightly.

Indeed, every time I hug him, my old mate, the White Poplar gives me a new lead, a hotline to earth.

The caldera was planted with ornamentals such as silver birch and white poplar, oaks, plane trees.

In addition to these trees, there are sequoias, cedars, palms, white poplars, pines, ginkgos and more.

We arrived at the village square, where we found two huge white poplars surrounded by crudely carved trunks which served as seats.

The whole face of the southern declivity was covered with wild shrubbery alone - an occasional silver willow or white poplar excepted.

Riparian woodlands includes such types of trees as white poplar, oak, alder-tree and white acacia.

And they are using native plants at last - white poplar, willow, silver leafed cornus and grey eleagnus.

The trees divide the area in two belts: the one near the waters contains white willows with black and white poplars; the second presents locust-trees.

Populus alba: white poplar (northwest Africa, southern Europe, east to central Asia)

Servius identifies the tree as the white poplar, the leaf of which is distinctively two-sided, one white and one dark.

The white poplar might be worn as a crown at athletic contests in honor of Herakles, a patron of the Olympic games.

Albert Popple said he was not surprised about the ulcer.

Mrs Popple had long been known to have a short temper.

Paul Popple's reluctance to take authority at the agency.

But the next attempt will be different, Mr. Popple said.

It was open country all around us here, except for a screen of young popple, beyond which there was a small creek.

The unincorporated community of Popple River is located in the town.

You can go to work and learn the motor car business from Paul Popple.'

He thought it would give Mrs Popple more time to calm down.

Puffball: White Popple who loves to throw her voice around.

Mr. Popple said that he had not expected the offering to be made later than August.

That's what the people on Popple Swamp Road wanted, and it was certainly all we needed.

He would walk around the block for a while and give Mrs Popple a chance to calm down.

Party: Large pink Popple who is literally a party animal.

"We were expecting a very strong weekend," Mr. Popple said.

Mr and Mrs Popple always argued at least once a week.

Mr Popple, upon returning home alone, found the spider floating in the toilet-bowl.

Puzzle: Orange Popple who is more or less the bookworm of the bunch.

Mrs Popple lay on the bathroom floor, her jaw muscles having gone into spasms.

Mr Popple peered over the side of the toilet, his right hand leaning on the toilet-seat.

Pretty Bit: Small purple Popple who almost always speaks in rhyme.

She is regarded as Mama Popple for the baby Popples.

Mrs Popple had just taken a bath.

Albert Popple would be back soon.

Mrs Popple lay on the operating table.

He had not seen it before in his panic to ring the ambulance and get Mrs Popple to hospital.

Populus tremuloides is the American aspen.

Populus tremuloides, the bark of which contains a substanced that can be extracted and used as a quinine substitute.

Populus tremuloides (N)

The example is derived from a 6 x 6 factorial mating design of Populus tremuloides and P. tremula.

The larvae feed on Populus tremula and Populus tremuloides (ssp.

Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name Aspen.

Populus tremula x Populus tremuloides (hybrid aspen)

Larvae have been recorded on Betula papyrifera, Populus tremuloides and Populus balsamifera.

Populus tremuloides - Quaking Aspen or Trembling Aspen (North America)

Well-drained areas have communities of white spruce Picea glauca, black cottonwood Populus trichocarpa and quaking aspen Populus tremuloides.

W. asperipunctella has in North America been reared from aspen Populus tremuloides (Landry, 1998) and also Salix in Europe.

The ectomycorrhizae that L. pubescens forms in association with Betula pendula and Populus tremuloides has been grown in pure culture and described scientifically.

The forested, or woodlands area is dominated by trembling aspen Populus tremuloides, balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), other poplars and spruces, although other species of trees do occur.

It is often found in association with the trees Populus tremuloides or Thuja plicata, or with shrubs from genus Salix (such as Salix herbacea and Salix glauca), Shepherdia canadensis or shrubs from the genus Dryas.