View Populus alba
The poplar referred to in the verses below is found in the hill country near and in Jerusalem. It grows to between 30 and 60 feet. It also thrives in wet places in Syria. Hosea records: "They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good..."
It is a fast-growing tree, especially while young. It produces long straight shoots and green leaves that are backed with white. The flowers are in the form of catkins and appear before the leaves. The buds are covered with a resinous varnish. They give out a balsamic odor when burned.
ALL THE PLANTS OF THE BIBLE
Winifred Walker
Genesis 30:37 (KJV) And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
Genesis 30:38 (KJV) And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
Genesis 30:39 (KJV) And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
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