Fuel

Cultivation

Wild progenitors

Back to opening page

 

The use of Poplar as a building timber is ubiquitous in the arid regions of Asia where it is cultivated under irrigation or found growing near permanant water. A common species used from Syria to China is Populus euphratica. Similar scenes can be found in Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere to this photo taken in Xinjiang province, western China

1995