The newly restored River Culm floodplain at Killerton where a population of rare black poplar is being established A living gene bank of the rarest native tree in Britain, the black poplar ...

A living gene bank of the rarest native tree in Britain, the black poplar, is being created in an urgent effort to create a breeding population. The National Trust at Killerton in Devon is ...

A pioneering effort to rescue Britain’s rarest native tree has taken root in Devon, as conservationists create a ‘living ...

Tom Shuttleworth, tree and woodland adviser for the National Trust, added: “The native black poplar is an iconic tree in the British landscape. “It is arguably our tallest native broadleaf and ...