Tree to about 20 m tall with narrow crown. Bark smooth, grey. Winter buds grey-hairy. Branchlets soft hairy at first becoming shiny brown. Mature leaves pointed, ovate, 7-10 cm long, with rounded unequal, coarse teeth, grey-hairy below, becoming bluish, rounder and more coarsely toothed on the young shoots.

E North America

Grey-hairy buds and new growth; similar to P. pseudo­grandidentata except that the latter has weeping foliage.

SA: Adelaide Botanic Garden.

 

P. pseudograndidentata Dode, Weeping Large-tooth Aspen is of unknown origin; it is similar to P. grandidentata but has weeping foliage.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Salicaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.