Trembling Aspens on The Bow River

by Nina Silver

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Trembling Aspens on The Bow River

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Nina Silver

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Photograph - Cafe Art, Photo Paint, Digital Photograph With Creative Digital Enhancements

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Trembling Aspens found along the Bow River in Banff National Park, Canada.
The Trembling Aspen is a slender, graceful tree with smooth, greenish-white bark; grows up to 25 metres tall; distinctive leaves that quiver in the slightest breeze.
Trembling aspen grows best on moist, well-drained soils, especially soils rich in calcium, such as those derived from limestone.
It is known for its ability to sprout from root suckers and form clones of many individual stems. Aspen clones can often be distinguished in spring or fall when groups of stems leaf out or change colour all at once. These clones can get quite large and can be very long-lived. Some are estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
Aspen wood is soft and brittle and not very durable. The Shuswap people of Canada used young aspen to make tent poles, but these apparently rotted after a couple of years. Rotten wood had its uses though. The Carrier people lined babies' cradles with it because it was soft and absorbent.
Aspen branches boiled in water made a cleanser for guns, traps, and buckskins. Hunters would also wash themselves in this solution to remove human odour.
The Okanagan people of British Columbia predicted storms when aspen leaves quivered in no perceptible wind.
Other names for the trembling aspen include quaking aspen or quivering aspen. In several native languages, the name translates as "woman's tongue" or "noisy leaf."

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