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Alnus incana

Alnus incana

Taxonomy

Kingdom
PLANTS
Family
Betulaceae
Genus
Alnus
Species
incana
Synonyms
j.Ĩierna, L. Moench

Habitat / Home / Areal

It grows in the foothills and lowland mountain ranges, it is a, a medium-sized tree, grows to a height of 6 m to 25 m, tolerates moisture and drought, is undemanding, frost-resistant, lives for approximately 50 years, grows around watercourses, moisture-loving, light-loving

Botanical description

Habitus: it has a silvery smooth, gray to brownish bark, the trunk is slender, it forms straight tufts, mostly straight, cylindrical, the crown is ovoid, densely leafy, broadly conical, cylindrical, with slightly rounded ends, the bark is smooth, grey-green

Leaf: simple, spiked, alternately arranged, not sticky, gray and fluffy petiole, single leaves, double-serrate at the edges, petiole 15 to 25 mm long, blade ovate-elliptic, truncate at the base, rounded to slightly notched, double-serrate to shallow at the edge lobed, terminal at the top, 4 to 10 cm long, 3 to 7 cm wide, green on the face, bluish-white on the back, densely gray hairy to felty, later scaly, sometimes with gray hairs only on the veins and in the axils of the veins, non-sticky with 8 up to 13 pairs of straight veins

Flower & Fruit: it blooms in March and April, the flowers are monoecious,with ovoid inverted anthers

Growth conditions / Cultivation / Care

– melioration wood – strengthening of slopes – afforestation of extreme sites – leaves do not change colour in autumn

Use / Function and landscape

Parks, gardens

making areas green

Special use

Light-loving, occurs near water flows

Reproduction

Seed, clipping

Varieties

Alnus Incana Moench

Alnus Incana Imperialis

Alnus Glutinosa

Diseases and pests

Fungi, bugs – Deporaus betulae