This is the largest tree that has been located in the province to date. It is a plains cottonwood and is located in an oxbow of the Assiniboine River approximately 18 km southwest of Portage La Prairie (SE31-10-7W).
The plains cottonwood is found throughout the southern one-third of the province, and is the largest of all the native poplars. It is often seen growing in the open or towering many feet above the canopy of mixed hardwood stands. The cottonwoods prefer rich, silty loam soils and usually attain their greatest growth and size along creeks and rivers. The plains cottonwood has also been planted extensively, especially by the early settlers, throughout southern Manitoba. With reasonable tending the species performs well as a shelterbelt tree, and remnants of some of the earliest plantings are still surviving.
A resume of this particular plains cottonwood or a similar cottonwood was described in Calvert, R.F. 1970. Tree Improvements in Manitoba. Manitoba Department of Mines, Resources and Environmental Management. Information Series No. 2.
Nominated By: Rick Morrison, Forestry Branch, Manitoba Department of Natural Resources, Winnipeg.
R.H. Drain, Box 107, Gr. 29, Winnipeg.
Carol Dyck, Box 1341, Portage La Prairie.
Leonard Rossnagel, R.R.3, Box 60, Portage La Prairie.
Source: Manitoba Forestry Association. 1987. Heritage Trees of Manitoba. Page 31.

This is the largest tree that has been located in the province to date. It is a plains cottonwood and is located in an oxbow of the Assiniboine River approximately 18 km southwest of Portage La Prairie (SE31-10-7W).
The plains cottonwood is found throughout the southern one-third of the province, and is the largest of all the native poplars. It is often seen growing in the open or towering many feet above the canopy of mixed hardwood stands. The cottonwoods prefer rich, silty loam soils and usually attain their greatest growth and size along creeks and rivers. The plains cottonwood has also been planted extensively, especially by the early settlers, throughout southern Manitoba. With reasonable tending the species performs well as a shelterbelt tree, and remnants of some of the earliest plantings are still surviving.
A resume of this particular plains cottonwood or a similar cottonwood was described in Calvert, R.F. 1970. Tree Improvements in Manitoba. Manitoba Department of Mines, Resources and Environmental Management. Information Series No. 2.
Nominated By: Rick Morrison, Forestry Branch, Manitoba Department of Natural Resources, Winnipeg.
R.H. Drain, Box 107, Gr. 29, Winnipeg.
Carol Dyck, Box 1341, Portage La Prairie.
Leonard Rossnagel, R.R.3, Box 60, Portage La Prairie.
Source: Manitoba Forestry Association. 1987. Heritage Trees of Manitoba. Page 31.