Instruction
1
Choose the right time of the year when you will learn to distinguish aspen from the poplar. To distinguish between trees easier and clearer to just that time of year when they have leaves, i.e. in spring, summer or early fall until the leaves fell off. In the winter it is harder to do, but still possible.
2
In the spring, notice how the tree buds. Take a sprig home and put it in the water. In the poplar branch, the leaves will begin to bloom quickly and will have a characteristic smell and stickiness. Aspen buds Wake up more slowly and the leaves are not so bright are shining.
3
See how flowering tree. Aspen blossoms early in spring before the poplar, before the leaves open. Poplar in bloom closer to the summer. You know him by flying from him in all directions white feathers. No other tree is not able to form such large drifts of fluff in the middle of summer, as the poplar. This is the main difference of a poplar from an aspen, which at the time of flowering grow long earrings-buds.
4
In summer, look closely at the leaves on the tree. It leaves are the main feature of each tree, one might even say, a kind of calling card. The seeming similarity of the leaf shape of aspen and poplar, resembling a circle or a heart, the aspen leaf has a long flexible stem, which does not break when tying its knot, while the leg of the leaf of a poplar short. The length of the stalk of an aspen leaf, which allows him to sway and tremble in the wind, we have a saying "What's shaking like a leaf?".
5
In winter, look at the shape of the crown. Under similar light color of the bark from aspen poplar in some cases has a pyramidal crown with branches directed obliquely upward.
6
Try to break a branch of a tree in half. Aspen is more fragile in comparison with poplar and easily broken.
