Strabo describes it as a travertine enclosure with a metal grating (presumably on top of the wall) and black poplars planted inside it.
Later, Dryope picked a flower off the tree Lotis had become, and was transformed into a black poplar.
Most of the newly planted trees were black poplars and its variant, Lombardy poplars.
In the past western marsh orchids and black poplars, could be found, but they have not been seen in recent years.
The black poplar (Populus nigra var.
Male black poplars are far more numerous than female trees in Britain and seedlings are, therefore, very rare.
The trees divide the area in two belts: the one near the waters contains white willows with black and white poplars; the second presents locust-trees.
In the reserve there are numerous small rivers along which dogwoods, aspens, black poplar and willows grow.
There are two stories of her metamorphosis into a black poplar.
Populus section Aigeiros - black poplars, some of the cottonwoods.