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The tulip tree is a plot element in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" (1843). [43] Walt Whitman observed in 1876-77 a 70 foot tall tulip tree and how "from top to bottom, seeking the sweet juice in the blossoms, it swarms with myriads of these wild bees, whose loud and steady humming makes an undertone to the whole." He referred to ...
These trees are widely known by the common name tulip tree or tuliptree for their large flowers superficially resembling tulips. It is sometimes referred to as tulip poplar or yellow poplar, and the wood simply as "poplar", although not closely related to the true poplars. Other common names include canoewood, saddle-leaf tree, and white wood.
Typical trees of these forests are sugar maple (Acer saccharum), American beech (Fagus grandifolia), eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), Carolina silverbell (Halesia tetraptera), tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), red maple (Acer rubrum), white oak (Quercus alba), northern red oak (Quercus rubra), yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis ...
Tulip-tree aphids are small pink or green insects. Tulip-tree scales are roughly 1/4-inch-long insects with green or orange-pink bodies. Both pests feed on plant sap in large colonies, and leave a ...
Tulip-tree, poplar Liriodendron tulipifera: 5 6 yes, see Monofloral honey: feral major in southern Appalachians, select northern locations, and Piedmont: T Apple [4] Malus domestica: 4 5 No, the nectar is mostly used for spring brood-raising and not stored for surplus. [5] cultivated minor T Crabapple: Malus sylvestris; Malus coronaria [3] 3 6 ...
The public is invited to the historic site at 809 Forbes Trail Road at 4:30 p.m. Sunday as officials dedicate a recently planted tulip poplar. The 5-foot sapling, with leaves ...
Liriodendron: tulip-trees; Liriodendron chinense: Chinese tulip-tree Magnoliaceae (magnolia family) Liriodendron tulipifera: American tulip-tree Magnoliaceae (magnolia family) 621 Magnolia: magnolias; Magnolia × soulangeana: saucer magnolia; tulip magnolia Magnoliaceae (magnolia family) Magnolia acuminata: cucumber tree; cucumber magnolia
The leaves are spirally arranged, and vary in shape from triangular to circular or (rarely) lobed, and with a long petiole; in species in the sections Populus and Aigeiros, the petioles are laterally flattened, so that breezes easily cause the leaves to wobble back and forth, giving the whole tree a "twinkling" appearance in a breeze. Leaf size ...