What tree makes noise without wind? No one is scared, but she still trembles. What kind of tree stands: There is no wind, but the leaf is trembling? aspen
“The trembling-leaved aspen is beautiful and noticeable only in autumn: its leaves are covered with gold and crimson; and, clearly different from the greenery of other trees, it gives a lot of charm and variety to the forest during autumn leaf fall.”
I.S. Turgenev
In botany, aspen is known as Populus tremula - “trembling poplar”. This Latin name was assigned to aspen by Carl Linnaeus, based on its external characteristics (populus - poplar, tremula - tremble).
In the aspen forest, even when there is no wind, the leaves are constantly rustling. And as soon as a light breeze blows, the sound of leaves fills the entire forest. Aspen leaves are round in shape, sit on a long, flattened petiole, and at the slightest air movement they begin to sway, hitting each other.
Aspen is extremely widespread in Russia - from northern forests to the Caucasus and from the shores of the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.
The aspen is well recognizable, its slender trunks below are dark gray, and above, where the crown is, silver-green. It rarely forms pure stands; it is more often part of mixed forests along with birch and spruce. Also, aspen forests are found as secondary, temporary ones, arising in places of deforestation or after fires.
Aspen has many different species forms. For example, in aspen forests you can often find trees with green or gray bark. In the latter, the base of the trunks is usually much darker than in aspens with green bark. The difference in color is especially noticeable in the spring, before flowering, during intense sap flow. Individual trees also differ in the timing of leaf blossoming, so in the spring you can notice “early” and “late” specimens in terms of leaf appearance.
In addition, there are individuals that are distinguished by vigorous growth and are considered “giants.” The crown of an adult aspen is powerful, but at the same time openwork, letting in a lot of light. The branches are fragile, fragile, they are easily broken off by the wind or under the weight of accumulated snow.
Aspen bears fruit very often, almost annually. The fruits are green multi-seeded capsules. When they burst, seeds fly in all directions. Dressed in tiny lumps of “cotton wool”, they scatter very far and cover the damp ground, and if the root manages to get through the layer of last year’s leaves, a new young tree will grow.
But more often aspens reproduce by root suckers. Sometimes, in place of a felled tree, several dozen new thin aspens grow. It often happens that a whole grove of aspens is the offspring of several trees on the roots of which young aspens grew. Young trees grow rapidly - in the first year they reach a height of 1.5-2 m.
It is interesting that the leaves of young shoots growing from root suckers are completely different from the leaves of an adult tree. They are much larger (up to 30 cm long), softer, slightly pubescent, with a pointed tip and more reminiscent of enlarged poplar leaves.
Anyone who loves spring woodcock hunting knows well how quickly clearings become overgrown with aspen. In young aspen forests there are often good woodcock movements, but several years pass and it is already difficult to find a place where one could stand.
The rapid growth of aspen continues for up to 50-60 years, after which it declines quite significantly. Individual trees under favorable growth conditions reach 35 m in height and 100 cm in thickness.
The life expectancy of aspen is short, 60-80, rarely 100 years. The short life of trees is associated with high vulnerability to pathogens and, primarily, wood-decaying fungi. Not a single tree in our forests suffers from tinder fungi as much as aspen.
Sometimes it is impossible to find a single tree in an aspen forest that is not affected by the fungus. By the age of 80, the rot has spread so much in the forest stand and the wood is destroyed to such an extent that strong winds begin to break off the trunks.
By 100-120 years, only a few trees remain in the forest. Aspens older than 150 years are difficult to find, although aspen trees that have lived up to 250 years have been recorded in old, untouched forests. What's bad for foresters is good for wildlife. Hollows are shelters for many forest animals and birds. Squirrels breed their offspring in them. The pine marten sits out in hollows during the day, keeping warm in severe frosts. Goldeneyes willingly settle on old aspen trees growing along the banks of reservoirs, incubating eggs in hollows.
Aspen is especially beautiful in the fall: its leaves are sometimes yellow, sometimes turning pink, sometimes fiery red, and sometimes lilac with crimson. There is always a special smell in the aspen forest. Even when the leaves fall from the trees, it is pleasant to be in it. The bitter smell of vanilla from fallen leaves accompanies hunters and mushroom pickers.
Aspen wood does not have a clearly defined core. Properly dried, it is second in strength only to oak and pine. In many places, fishermen made light one-tree boats, or aspen boats, from thick aspen trunks. To do this, they first hollowed out the middle of a log, filled it with water and steamed it by throwing hot stones into the water. Then the sides, which had become flexible, were finally trimmed and pulled apart using spacers.
Skis, sled runners, and light and durable tableware are also made from aspen. To make a carved ladle or spoon, folk craftsmen steamed the blanks in boiling water. After this, the wood can be cut easily with sharp tools.
It is believed that cabbage soup and pickles do not turn sour in aspen dishes, since its wood contains substances that kill putrefactive bacteria. It is no coincidence that in northern villages housewives put aspen logs in sauerkraut.
Aspen wood is also good because it lasts for a long time in water. Since ancient times in Rus', well frames were knitted from aspen logs. Aspen wood does not care about prolonged autumn rains or stormy summer downpours. That is why the domes of northern Russian churches were covered only with aspen ploughshare - oblong, sometimes slightly curved figured aspen boards, usually shaped like a spatula or a flat stepped pyramid.
The towers and Red Chamber of the Kremlin in Rostov the Great, the Intercession and Transfiguration churches of Kizhi Island on Lake Onega, the chapel of the Pyatnitsky well in Sergiev Posad, built in the 17th-18th centuries, are covered with aspen ploughshare. Over time, the ploughshare becomes silver due to sun and rain. Foreigners who saw the domes of churches for the first time mistook an aspen ploughshare shining in the sun for silver.
But, in addition to its economic and aesthetic value, aspen is extremely important for animals living in Russian forests. Since it forms very long and quite numerous surface roots, extending from the center to a distance of up to 20 m or more, buds are formed on the upper side of the root system, forming new shoots.
These offspring, especially in large numbers, are formed after cutting a tree and appear in small numbers during the life of the tree (this is why feeding animals with aspen does not lead to the disappearance of aspen even with regular felling).
The huge surface distribution of roots contributes to the fact that if 2-3 dozen adult aspens per hectare of forest are left after felling, they will form dense young aspen trees of vegetative origin. And it is precisely such places that become the main winter feeding grounds for moose and white hare.
In winter, and more often closer to spring, in the aspen forest you can find fallen trees with dazzling white trunks and branches, as if carved from ivory. This is the work of hares and moose. Aspen bark is a great delicacy for them in winter.
In places where beavers live, you can see how these tireless workers first of all strive to fell the aspen. They are not embarrassed by the wide trunks. They spend more than one night to fell a tree and provide themselves with food for a long time.
Aspen bark, in addition to valuable nutrients, contains glycerin, esters, acids, antibiotics and biostimulants, and tannins. As shown by special studies conducted on moose farms, without aspen bark, as well as willow and rowan bark, which contain a large amount of tannins, moose quickly die.
Buds, leaves and young shoots are among the main foods of capercaillie, black grouse, and white partridge. If in winter the vegetative and generative buds of the aspen are eaten in small quantities by all grouse, then when the flowering male and female catkins stretch out, wood grouse, black grouse and hazel grouse fly to the aspens and fill the crop with catkins alone.
These pollen-filled purple anthers, which resemble furry caterpillars, have high nutritional value. Once the catkins disperse their pollen, the grouse's attitude toward the aspen catkins changes dramatically; but now they have another delicacy - tender aspen leaves.
From the second half of August, wood grouse begin to fly out to aspen forests at dawn and eat aspen leaves (with the onset of autumn cold weather, their nutritional value—sugar content—increases). First, the young birds fly out, then the roosters, and the roosters start eating aspen leaves later than the others - in September.
ASPEN is one of the types of poplars. Aspen is a fast-growing tree meters in height, lives up to, and sometimes more than, years. The trunk is straight. The bark is thin, greenish-gray above and ash-gray below.
The leaves are alternate, ovate, greenish-white, trembling in the wind. This feature of aspen is reflected in its botanical name - “trembling poplar”.
Russian aspen produces satiny white, pure wood, it is light, soft, and ripples well. Since ancient times in Rus', aspen was used to make tubs, stools, roofing shingles, and well frames. Its wood is the most valuable raw material for the production of plywood, matches, cellulose, paper, artificial silk, and various plastics. Aspen can be painted well, impregnated with varnishes, paints, and antiseptics. In urban construction, aspen replaces oak and beech when laying parquet floors, and furniture is also made from it.
Read the text. Explain the spelling of words with missing letters. I walked with my grandmother into the grove, looked closely to see if the blueberry was in bloom? And Sina is still naked. No leaves, no sleeping hairpins. -Grandma, from now on we’ll keep an eye on him every day? -For what? -And so that the beets are sown on time. So as not to miss it. “We don’t rent,” says the grandmother. – It’s already clear that now it’s time for a nanny to sleep, they won’t get dressed soon... (From the story by E. Shima “Blossom, it’s your turn”) Check
Read the text. Explain the spelling of words with missing letters. My grandmother and I went to the grove and looked closely to see if the aspen was blooming? And the aspen is still bare. No leaves, no dangling earrings. -Grandma, are we going to keep an eye on the aspen every day now? -For what? -And so that the beets are sown on time. So as not to miss. “We won’t miss it,” says grandma. – It’s already clear that spring is late now, the trees will not be dressed soon... (From the story by E. Shima “Blossom, it’s your turn”)
For those who love to read! SCARY ASPEN You've probably noticed all the trees in the forest stand calmly, without moving a branch. And only one aspen trembles. The most imperceptible breeze blows and the leaves are already spinning and fussing. They are suspended on long petioles. As if on flexible strings. As if they were deliberately made as a weather vane to catch the wind. Continuation of Eduard Shim's story “The Shy Aspen”
Resources Russian language. 1-4 grades. Working with dictionary words. Author-compiler T.M. Anokhina. Volgograd, 2007 Explanatory dictionary of V.I. Dahl E. Shim. Tales found in the grass. M., 1976 E. Shim. Stories and tales about nature. M., fotki.yandex.ru/get/6/nmartyanov.3/0_4cf0_f18f6c1e_ XL fotki.yandex.ru/get/6/nmartyanov.3/0_4cf0_f18f6c1e_ XL jpg jpg
trembling tree
Alternative descriptionsPoplar tree
Midland tree with constantly trembling leaves
Wood from which a stake was made in the past - an instrument of execution
The tree is the owner of trembling leaves
Trees and shrubs
Judas tree
Deciduous tree from the willow family
Deciduous tree related to poplar
Nature painted the wings of the moth butterfly to match the color of the bark of this tree.
Cool vampire tree
Tree of Judas
Type of poplar
Gallows for Judas
Tree above redhead
The scientific name of this plant is populus tremula - shaking poplar
According to legend, the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified was made from this tree
. “no one scares, but everyone trembles” (riddle)
On which tree did Judas hang himself?
Cool tree (for funny vampires)
Wood for making anti-vampire weapons
Tree fluttering in the dark blue forest
Match tree
Tree for the ghoul
What kind of wood should you make a stake from to kill a vampire?
Tree with trembling leaves
Related to poplar
Poplar Kin
Its leaves are red in autumn
Blushing tree in autumn
Red tree in autumn
Poplar's relatives
Tree with foliage
No one is scared, but everyone is trembling
Trembling Tree
Wood to impale a vampire
What tree do vampires not like?
Material for anti-vampire stakes
deciduous tree
Woody delicacy for the beaver's table
Tree with leaves trembling in fear
Cool tree for a vampire
Wood shudder measure
Trembling in the dark blue forest
Beaver's favorite tree
Anti-vampire tree
Tree - beaver delicacy
The trembling poplar sister
Wood for openwork carving
Forest sister of poplar
. "shaking" tree
Wood for stakes
Witch Tree
Doom Tree of Judas
Tree of the poplar genus
. "...doesn't burn without kerosene"
Tree with trembling leaves
Deciduous tree of the willow family with leaves on long stalks that move very easily
. "...doesn't burn without kerosene"
. "Trembling" poplar sister
. "Shaking" tree
Tree - beaver delicacy
Tree with trembling leaves
F. tree Poppulus tremulus; most of all it is used for chipped (carved and turned) wooden dishes, which is why it is also called baklushey, lower. Bitter aspen, in the song. The aspen is a cursed tree, Judas hanged himself on it, and since then the leaf on it has been trembling. There is blood under the bark on the aspen; the bark, under the skin, is reddish. One berry, bitter rowan, one tree, bitter aspen! They say fever and teeth on aspen: having cut out a triangle from the bark (in the name and union and the Holy One, they rub their gums until they bleed, I put it back in its place. If my legs cramp, then I put an aspen log in my legs, and for headaches in my head .. To strangle him on the aspen. The wicked greyhounds and hounds are hanged on the aspen, if they are wandering around in death, they are turned over on their faces and pierced with an aspen stake, so that the cabbage does not become sour, they put an aspen sable in it. . low analysis. Trembling like an aspen leaf. I’m strangling myself on the bitter aspen tree, even without the wind the aspen is still whispering, but the damned aspen tree is growing, but it’s not crazy. I wish I could take you out to the aspen! Just as the aspen trembles, the cattle in the field are well fed. The aspen has large buds for the barley harvest (that is, it blooms richly). Aspen stake he will keep saying: straw! Aspen grove, aspen grove. where bread is not born, but they earn money in spoons and cups. Heat with aspen wood, aspen wood. Aspen mushroom, boletus mushroom or red mushroom, Boletus auratiacua. Osinnik, Nov. aspen, aspen w. arch. hollow, single-tree aspen, boat, canoe, shavings, sometimes with beatings, nozzles. Osipovka, aspen basket, bent box
What tree do vampires not like?
Kin to the poplar
. “no one is scared, but everyone is trembling” (riddle)
On which tree did Judas hang himself?
What kind of wood should you make a stake from to kill a vampire?