Could be some type of poplar although these are rarely offered in the trade. What does the underside look like?

+oM

When I Google poplar trees for sale I get 1,800,000 hits.

Here is the underside of the leaf. The trunk is grayish.

Definitely poplar. Have a picture of the trunk?

Yeah, its not a fruit tree. It will grow fast most likely, but not necessarily desirable. You can probably find something a lot nicer.

Thanks for the input folks, here is the trunk and leaf.

ID is callery pear, not a poplar IMO

John

Yeah, that trunk shot changes everything. Pyrus calleryana. Not the best long-term prospect. Cool fall colors, often great spring white flower show. But weak branches and most damning-a serious invasive species in many locales.

Bboy, thanks for totaling up the 1.8 million hits you got in your search. Yet I maintain, in the landscape business, poplars are relatively rare offerings these days. Now if you're looking to grow biomass for energy production, then you are very likely looking into this genus. I'm making a wild guess that that ain't what OP is contemplating here!

+oM

Have you looked at what comes up on Google? Obviously, the biomass cultivars would not pertain. In my region the main ones on the retail market (being offered for uses other than plantations) are Populus deltoides 'Siouxland', P. nigra 'Italica', P. tremula 'Erecta' and P. tremuloides. The last is the most prevalent, I can expect to see it at most independent garden centers of any size here.

Tree shown does clearly have the branches of a pear.

bboy, OP didn't give his location that I can see but locally there are no poplars of any variety for sale. Up in NWA, I did see a quaking aspen 'gold something or other' once, but that is about it.

I did mail-order 'Siouxland' and have enjoyed watching shoot up to the sky over the last 3 years.

John

Well, now that I've posted, I see OP has PA in his info line in the first post.

Where is that edit option when I need it?

To confirm, is this a Callary Pear or Bradford. Also is the Callary stronger than the bradford as far as damage from storms etc. Thanks

genus = Pyrus
species = calleryana
cultivar = 'Bradford'

I don't know if that is the plant you have but that is how it shakes out from a terminology perspective.

In other words 'Bradford' is one particular named selection of Callery pear.

Callery pear: cow

'Bradford': Holstein

LOL bboy, thanks for the description, no bull correct.

Yep, definitely callery (or bradford, or whatever). Don't really like 'em myself - They sprout here and there in disturbed ground around here, and the species ones are often thorny. The blooms are kind of pretty, and they have good fall color; its the overall habit of the tree I don't like.