Editing Populus (section)

==Culture==
Two notable poems in English lament the cutting down of poplars, [[William Cowper]]'s "The Poplar Field" and [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]]' "[[Binsey Poplars]] felled 1879".

In [[Billie Holiday]]'s "[[Strange Fruit]]", she sings "Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees…".

The Odd Poplars Alley, in [[Iași]], Romania, is one of the spots where [[Mihai Eminescu]] sought inspiration in his works (the poem "Down Where the Lonely Poplars Grow"). In 1973, the 15 white poplars still left (with age ranges between 233 and 371 years) were declared natural monuments.<ref>{{cite web |date=2017-10-17 |title=Iași - the county of centuries-old trees |url=http://www.agerpres.ro/engleza-destinatie-romania/2014/09/04/destination-romania-iasi-the-county-of-centuries-old-trees-13-57-22 |access-date=2018-10-15 |publisher=Agerpres.ro |archive-date=6 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806074723/https://www.agerpres.ro/engleza-destinatie-romania/2014/09/04/destination-romania-iasi-the-county-of-centuries-old-trees-13-57-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In Ukraine, one of neighborhoods of [[Kyiv]] is named after ''[[Populus nigra]]'' as [[Osokorky]], a local name.

In Greek mythology, the [[Heliades]] were turned into poplar trees by the gods when their brother, [[Phaethon|Paethon]], died after attempting to drive his father, [[Helios]], his chariot across the sky.