| Scientific Name: | Liriodendron tulipifera |
| Common Name: | tulip tree, yellow poplar |
| Family Name: | Magnoliaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Orbicular, Ovate, Entire, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Yellow, Green, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Samara, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, squarish with a pair of lobes on each margin; most blades 8-15cm long x 12-17cm wide; petioles 5-12cm long; stipules paired, light green, elliptic to oblanceolate, 20-45mm long; flowers with pale-green petals, terminal, cup-shaped, solitary, numerous stamens and pistils, late May-mid-June; fruit a cone-like aggregate of spirally arranged yellow-brown samaras, 3-5cm long x 5-9mm wide. Winter ID: buds valvate, clam-shaped, terminal buds like a duck bill. | |