Description ³

Magnoliaceae | tulip poplar/tulip tree

Habitat: Deciduous woods.

Leaves: To 6" or longer, with two lobes at the tip and two at the side, dark green above, bluish white beneath, turning yellow to orange in autumn.

Bark: Gray-brown, furrowed with age.

Flowers: To 2 1/2" long, with nine tepals, three green, reflexed, six pale green banded orange near the base, singly at the ends of the shoots in midsummer.

Fruit: A conical, pale brown cluster.

Coombes, A. J. (1992). Trees. New York: Dorling Kindersley.

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