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In some areas of Montreal, you might have noticed this “fluff” that has been falling up and down for at least the past three weeks. On my street, Ste-Famille, in the far McGill ghetto, these flying cotton balls have taken epic proportions, accumulating as snow would in late Fall. The only difference is that it’s 27\u2103 and it won’t “melt” until the next rain.<\/p>\n

I was going to post this as a Photo du jour<\/a>, but a blog entry<\/a> by La Presse<\/em> columnist Yves Boisvert answered some of my previously unanswered questions:<\/p>\n

Samedi, Pierre Gingras <\/em>(editor’s note: another La Presse reporter) a r\u00e9pondu \u00e0 ma question: c\u2019est le peuplier delto\u00efde. De delta, en forme de triangle, \u00e0 cause des feuilles. Les fran\u00e7ais ont d\u00fb le nommer avant qu\u2019il ne produise sa semence, sinon ils auraient fait comme les Am\u00e9ricains et auraient retenu le plus spectaculaire, eux qui l\u2019ont appel\u00e9 Eastern Cottonwood.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It comes indeed from a tree, namely a kind of poplar! According to Boisvert’s post, three such poplars (or cottonwood trees) in Repentigny made so much “minous” that a neighbor dragged the trees’ owners to court, in the Lapointe v. Desgrobois<\/a> case. The demand was rejected by the judge, who said that tree seeds don’t cause horrible inconveniences and that while one doesn’t like them, he should at least be able to tolerate them.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but I thought I did see this following tree on my street shedding the white puffs, which had the characteristics of a poplar:<\/p>\n

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