Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera, Tulip Tree is a fast growing and hardy, deciduous tree. It has unusual, four-lobed, silvery/green leaves that turn golden/yellow in autumn. It bears greenish to creamy yellow, fragrant flowers with an orange base, followed by b

The tulip poplar is not a poplar at all but is a member of the magnolia family. It gets its name from the tulip-shaped flowers that are green and yellow. It is the tallest Eastern hardwood and was prized by Native Americans as a favorite tree to use to make dugout canoes.

Tulip Tree, Lyriodendrum tulipfera

Tulip Poplar tree is a large, fast growing native tree with late spring flowers shaped like tulips and develops into a stately, long-lived tree.

For a short while, it is the garden’s signature tree. For most of the year it holds either naked branches against sky; or else a wrap of unremarkable green – like so many other large t…

Fast-growing tree with a dead straight trunk. The crown is narrow early on but later develops to conical. In old specimens the branches spread to form a broad ov...

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté was born 1759 in Saint-Hubert, Belgium and he died in Paris in 1840 at the age of 80 while sitting at his easel painting a lily. Nicknamed "The Raphael Of Flowers" he was painter and botanist, best known for his watercolors of roses, lilies and other flowers. He was the official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette and he continued painting through the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. Redouté survived the turbulent political upheaval to gain international…

The tulip tree, Liriodendron Tulipifera, has many names, some of which are the American Tulip Tree, Tulip poplar, Tuliptree, and the Yellow Poplar, Fiddle-Tree and the White wood tree.