{"id":87217,"date":"2020-04-18T01:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2020-04-18T01:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:07:32","slug":"russian-poplar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/russian-poplar\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian poplar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Jammu and Kashmir(J&amp;K) High Court has stayed its 2015 order&nbsp; directing the civil administration to cut down Russian Poplar trees in the union territory of J&amp;K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The name Russian poplar is a misnomer and has nothing to do with Russia.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The tree is a Western American species known as Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) in the US.<\/li><li>It was introduced in Kashmir in 1982 from the US under a World Bank-aided social forestry scheme.<\/li><li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong>The species takes less time(10-15 years) to grow as compared to the Kashmir poplar that takes 30-40 years.Due to their high yield, poplars are intensively used in the timber and construction industry.<\/li><li><strong>Health concerns:<\/strong> During summers, female poplar sheds a cotton-like material carrying seeds that cause allergy and aggravate respiratory disorders.This cotton has become an irritant in the recent past for the locals as well as tourists.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Jammu and Kashmir(J&amp;K) High Court has stayed its 2015 order&nbsp; directing the civil administration to cut down Russian Poplar trees in the union territory of J&amp;K. Facts: The name Russian poplar is a misnomer and has nothing to do with Russia.&nbsp; The tree is a Western American species known as Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/russian-poplar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russian poplar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4397],"class_list":["post-87217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-russian-poplar","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704927161},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}