. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 392 Tulip Tree II. TULIP TREE GENUS UEIODENDRON LINN^US Species Liriodendron Tulipifera Linnaeus HE Tulip tree, White-wood, Tulip poplar, Yellow poplar, White poplar. Blue poplar. Hickory poplar. Saddle-leaf, or Lyre tree, as it is variously called, the type of the genus Liriodendron, is the most characteristic tree of eastern North America, and also one of the largest and most interesting; it grows in woods from Rhode Is
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 392 Tulip Tree II. TULIP TREE GENUS UEIODENDRON LINN^US Species Liriodendron Tulipifera Linnaeus HE Tulip tree, White-wood, Tulip poplar, Yellow poplar, White poplar. Blue poplar. Hickory poplar. Saddle-leaf, or Lyre tree, as it is variously called, the type of the genus Liriodendron, is the most characteristic tree of eastern North America, and also one of the largest and most interesting; it grows in woods from Rhode Island to southern Vermont, Michigan, and Missouri, south to Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas, attaining a maximum height of about 60 meters, the trunk sometimes 3 meters in diameter or more. The thick brown bark is irregularly ridged, the stout twigs reddish brown to gray, the blunt-pointed buds large, glaucous and smooth, their scales stipular to the leaves, falling away while the leaves are still young, except on seedling plants, where they are quite persistent. The alternate leaves are imique in form, smooth, broadly ovate or nearly orbicular in outline, truncate or broadly notched at the apex, 6 to 20 cm. long, with two apical lobes and 2 or 4 basal ones; they are shining bright green on the upper surface, paler and duU on the under side; the slender leaf-stalks are 10 cm. long or less, and the leaves quiver somewhat like those of the Aspens. The large, greenish yellow flowers are solitary at the ends of branchlets, opening in May or June; they have 3 reflexed petal-like sepals, 6 connivent clawed blunt petals, many stamens borne on the base of the long receptacle, and many pistils spiked on the upper part of the receptacle; the style is winged, the stigma small. The fruit is an oblong pointed cone 5 to 7 cm. long, the dry fruiting carpels imbricated on the receptacle, the axes of which remain on the trees iG. 347. u ip ree. ^^^^ ^^ carpels have fallen away. The tree grows
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