# 0031
Hybrid black poplar
Living Thing, Individual Thing, Common, Gathered, Museum, Polymers, Weeks
Socio-cultural Data
Historical Uses
Non known.
Present Uses
Non known.
Experimental, near future uses
When held in the hand this material is as soft as fibre from the tropical Kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra) used as filling for pillows and cushions. Perhaps, this vigourous hybrid popular can be a substitute for imported kapok fibre?
Other Fascinating Facts
The materials is actually comprised of tiny pappus attached to the seeds of the female tree of Populus x canadensis. The trees produce so much pappus is is like a snowstorm when the wind blows them from the tree and covers the ground with the white fluffy material.
Technical Data
Class of Material
Polymers
Bio-temporal-geographical Data
Place of Origin · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)
Residence time (How long does the matter/material/artefact stay in an unaltered state in the location/context/system before it decay?)
Weeks
How does the item affect the environment in which it exists?
Nourish it
Ontological-cosmological Data
delicate
How would you like to be with this artefact/material/living thing/matter?
by recognising the seasons
What can humans give back to this artefact/material/living thing/matter?
give space for the female trees to grow into mature specimens