FREE: Liriodendron Tulipifera Tree Seeds

The listing, Liriodendron Tulipifera Tree Seeds has ended.

You will receive (10) seeds and bonus seeds of my choice.
Please send Listia verified address as I will NOT ship if you email it to me.

Tulip trees, which is also commonly called yellow or white poplar, is not a poplar at all. It is part of the Magnolia family.

The flowers are pale green or yellow (rarely white), with an orange band on the tepals.
Flowers: May. Perfect, solitary, terminal, greenish yellow, borne on stout peduncles, an inch and a half to two inches long, cup-shaped, erect, conspicuous. The bud is enclosed in a sheath of two triangular bracts which fall as the blossom opens. One of the largest and most valuable hardwoods of eastern North America, it is native from southern New England and New York westward to southern Michigan, and south to Louisiana and northern Florida.

Tulip tree is named for the flowers and leaves that resemble tulips. It grows rapidly and is useful as a large shade tree.

Zones 4-9
Grow in full to part sun.

Tulip tree should be shaped to have a central leader. Otherwise, little pruning is necessary to maintain tulip tree. Any pruning should be done in winter.

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