Populus alba

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It is non-native to Gujarat, Introduced experimentally to Western India and Gujarat through social forestry trials, institutional arboreta, and private agroforestry farm-forestry plots seeking fast-growing plywood softwoods, it is cultivated under managed irrigation across research stations, farm boundaries, and specialized plantations in Central and North Gujarat (Anand, Vadodara, Mehsana, Gandhinagar)

Native to a broad region spanning Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Western and Central Asia. Indigenous to temperate river valleys and moist mountain tracts of Western Himalayas (J&K, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Uttarakhand at 1,200 to 3,000 m).

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