Vienna's own records cannot agree what this tree is.
Poplar
Populus sp.
Poplars grow fast and die young, which is exactly why the old ones here stand out: each has outlasted the ordinary run for the genus by decades. We map 4 of them, in 4 cities.
None of them is famous for its age. Ofunato's Dokonjo Poplar took the 2011 tsunami half underwater and kept standing, and the city built a memorial plaza around it. Biei's Ken and Mary Tree was just a farm boundary marker until a 1972 car commercial made it one of the most photographed trees in Hokkaido. Arnhem's Wagnerlaan Poplar has an official monument listing and nothing else, not even a settled species, and Warsaw's in Park Wielkopolski got a two-line designation in 2019 that does not say which poplar it is either. The sources cannot say which poplar any of them is, only that each is a Populus. If you know one on sight, tell us.
Vienna
Warsaw
Filed in September 2019, this poplar's designation runs two lines and does not say which poplar it is.
Photo: Panek (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Biei
A car advertisement gave this poplar its name and made it one of the most photographed single trees in Hokkaido.
Ofunato
The 2011 tsunami put this poplar half under seawater and it stayed standing.
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