In terms of flowers, these cottonwoods produce yellow catkins on both male and female trees. The fruits of black cottonwoods are similar to those of the eastern cottonwood except that they have a ...

The cottonwood tree buds were more or less formed before winter. In the spring, those buds blossom into male and female flowers. The male flowers, dangling clusters known as catkins, release ...

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood ...

The new growth is high in protein and minerals. Forestryimages.org provides several images of parts of Eastern cottonwood. The tree is a hardwood and the lineal taxonomy is Magnoliopsida ...

The trees can grow to be over 100 feet tall and have a six-foot-wide trunk. The cottonwood has separate male and female flowers. The male flowers release pollen in March but are done by May.

Yes, snow. And for that I can thank the majestic Eastern cottonwood tree that has been growing on the farm on the edge of a creek since, well, before the farm was cultivated. It was growing there ...

PATAGONIA - What was long the nation's biggest cottonwood tree is dead, split into two slabs, its gargantuan trunk sprawling askew. Its base is hollow, its bark, rotting. Most of its leaves are ...