Native to the eastern elevation of North America , the tulip poplar tree tree ( Liriodendron tulipifera ) is a deciduous tree that is also experience as chicken poplar tree . It is not a member of the poplar family ( Populus sp . ) , but lumberyard label the Ellen Price Wood as poplar wood , abridge the common name of icteric poplar tree . The scientific name , Liriodendron , mean lily tree .
Description
allot to the University of Kentucky , the tulip poplar is the magniloquent North American hardwood tree . It is name for the distinctive Green River and orangish tulip - shaped bloom that produce good , high in the tree , in May and June . The peak raise key fruit , cone - shape spirals of seed , in fall , and the seeds themselves are extremely tart . The four - lobed foliage rise 6 inches wide of the mark and work yellow or browned in fall . duck’s egg - bill mold buds appear in winter .
Culture
Tulip trees require moist , deep soil and full Dominicus . They are fast grower , to 80 feet marvelous , and promptly whelm small residential yards . Tulip poplar trees in timber acquire twice as high . Cultivated tulip poplar trees are cone-shaped and branch to the ground ; the barbarian populations lose their lower branches and have eminent canopies . These environmentally sensitive trees do not recover from spring frosts or drought quickly . Water tulip poplars in hot conditions or during dry periods , or the tree diagram sheds leaves early .
History
Fossils of the tulip tree show that it once circumscribed the northern cerebral hemisphere , rise in Europe and Asia in prehistoric eld . Native Americans used the tulip tree to treat infection , and former European explorers were amazed by the altitude . botanist sent collected trees back to Europe , where the mood agree with the tulip poplar . It is now the most popular American tree diagram in European gardens .
Uses
Native Americans used the tulip Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to care for transmission . Early settler called the tulip tree " canoe wood " and harvested it for ships , newspaper publisher Robert Mills and construction . Lumber company decimated vast viewpoint of tulip poplar after the Civil War for the light , easily workable wood , and pulverization still esteem it as a lumber source . Other uses let in gourmet honey product and modified manufacturing . A centre stimulant , hydrochlorate of tulipiferine , is made from the inner bark and base .
Problems
Tulip poplar trees are susceptible to drought and , if conditions are dry , pretermit their leaves in July or August . potent jazz easily damage the frail woodwind and the tulip poplar litters the ground beneath it with branchlet and little branches . They do not tolerate environmental stress and are vulnerable to verticillium wilt , a fungus that remains in the soil . Aphids prefer feeding on the tulip poplar , often infesting the tree diagram .
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