''Populus simaroa'', the Balsas poplar, is a species of flowering plant in the family
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae are the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') includes the willows, poplars. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumsc ...
, native to central and southwestern Mexico.
Unusually, it drops its leaves in the wet season and grows them out in the dry season.
It may be conspecific with ''
Populus guzmanantlensis''.
References
simaroa
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of Southwestern Mexico
Flora of Central Mexico
Plants described in 1975
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