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- DescriptionTulip Tree Liriodendron tulipifera Leaf Underside Red Mite 2700px.jpg English: Photograph of an unidentified red mite on the leaf underside...(2,700 × 2,000 (2.94 MB)) - 04:04, 26 May 2025
- (Liriodendron tulipifera). English: American tulip tree , tulip poplar or yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). Español: tulipanero (Liriodendron tulipifera)...(1,500 × 2,250 (2.76 MB)) - 13:55, 6 October 2024
- select the license of your choice. English A leaf of the Chinese tulip poplar (Liriodendron chinense) Wikimedia username: El Grafo author name string: El...(1,845 × 1,673 (1.61 MB)) - 21:47, 28 May 2025
- DescriptionLiriodendron tulipifera.jpg Liriodendron tulipifera (American Tulip-tree) foliage and flower. Date 31 May 2007 Source Own work: http://www.cirrusimage...(1,024 × 768 (395 KB)) - 04:11, 25 January 2024
- DescriptionLiriodendron tulipifera1.jpg Species: Liriodendron tulipifera Family: Magnoliaceae Image No. 2 Date 2004 Source caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/mavica/index...(640 × 480 (30 KB)) - 10:18, 8 July 2023
- English Liriodendron, Bel Air, Maryland, USA French Liriodendron, Bel Air, Maryland, États-Unis applies to jurisdiction: United States determination method...(970 × 677 (480 KB)) - 07:24, 20 August 2024
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- DescriptionLiriodendron tulipifera (arbre) - Laeken.JPG Français : tulipier de Virginie (Liriodendron tulipifera) - Parc de Laeken (Belgique) - 347. English:...(1,152 × 1,728 (1.76 MB)) - 20:04, 31 January 2022
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- DescriptionLiriodendron tulipifera double trunk NBG LR.jpg Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip Tree, Yellow Poplar) double trunk just north from Colonial Gardens...(6,000 × 4,000 (18.68 MB)) - 16:35, 20 May 2025
- File:Tulipero Oyarzun Valdivia.jpg (category Liriodendron)Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue English Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip tree) Singular tree of Valdivia. Spanish Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulípero) Árbol singular...(486 × 800 (120 KB)) - 08:11, 30 September 2023
- DescriptionLiriodendron chinense bud.jpg English: A bud of Liriodendron chinense, picture taken in the Ecological Botanical Gardens of Bayreuth, Germany...(2,289 × 4,071 (9.14 MB)) - 11:01, 22 March 2025
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- DescriptionLiriodendron MSU.JPG English: An 1-year-old seedling of Liriodendron tulipifera in the pot. Botanical garden of Moscow State University. Date...(1,634 × 1,506 (1,000 KB)) - 18:46, 2 March 2025
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- DescriptionLiriodendron tulipifera near Yoshizuka Station.jpg 日本語: 吉塚駅西口前のユリノキ Date 24 October 2016, 14:12:35 Source Own work Author そらみみ...(2,399 × 3,199 (2.3 MB)) - 16:37, 20 May 2025
- Flower of Liriodendron at Rheinpark Cologne German Blüte des Tulpenbaumes im Rheinpark Köln of (DEPRECATED): Liriodendron tulipifera color: yellow depicted...(2,000 × 1,500 (833 KB)) - 10:41, 8 July 2023
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Liriodendron (/ˌlaɪriəˈdɛndrən, ˌlɪr-, -ioʊ-/[3][4]) is a genus of two species of characteristically large trees, deciduous over most of their populations, in the magnolia family (Magnoliaceae).
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.
The two extant species are Liriodendron tulipifera, native to eastern North America, and Liriodendron chinense, native to China and Vietnam. Both species often grow to great size; the North American species may reach as much as 58.5 m (192 ft) in height.[5] The North American species is commonly used horticulturally, the Chinese species is increasing in cultivation, and hybrids have been produced between these two allopatrically distributed species.
Various extinct species of Liriodendron have been described from the fossil record.

Description
Liriodendron trees are easily recognized by their leaves, which are distinctive, having four lobes in most cases and a cross-cut notched or straight apex. Leaf size varies from 8–22 cm long and 6–25 cm wide. They are deciduous in the vast majority of cases for both species; however, each species has a semi-deciduous variety at the southern limit of its range in Florida and Yunnan respectively.[6] The tulip tree is often a large tree, 18–60 m high and 60–120 cm in diameter. The stoutest well-authenticated Tulip tree was the Liberty Tree in Maryland which was 21.5 feet (6.6 meters) in circumference.[7] It died in 1999. The tree is known to reach the height of 191.8 feet (58.5 meters),[8] in groves where they compete for sunlight, somewhat less if growing in an open field. Its trunk is usually columnar, with a long, branch-free bole forming a compact, rather than open, conical crown of slender branches. It has deep roots that spread widely.[9][full citation needed]
Leaves are slightly larger in L. chinense, compared to L. tulipifera, but with considerable overlap between the species; the petiole is 4–18 cm long. Leaves on young trees tend to be more deeply lobed and larger in size than those on mature trees. In autumn, the leaves turn yellow, or brown and yellow. Both species grow rapidly in rich, moist soils of temperate climates. They hybridize easily, producing L. x sinoamericanum cultivars.[citation needed]
Flowers are 3–10 cm in diameter and have nine tepals — three green outer sepals and six inner petals which are yellow-green, with an orange flare at the base in L. tulipifera and L. x sinoamericanum. They start forming after around 15 years and are superficially similar to a tulip in shape, hence the tree's name. Flowers of L. tulipifera have a faint cucumber odor. The stamens and pistils are arranged spirally around a central spike or gynaecium; the stamens fall off, and the pistils become the samaras. The fruit is a cone-like aggregate of samaras 4–9 cm long, each of which has a roughly tetrahedral seed with one edge attached to the central conical spike and the other edge attached to the wing.[citation needed]



Cytology
The chromosome count of Liriodendron chinense is 2n = 38.[10]
Taxonomy
It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 with Liriodendron tulipifera L. as the type species.[11][1]
Species


- †Liriodendron balticum P.I. Dorof.[12]
- Liriodendron chinense (Hemsl.) Sarg.[2]
- Liriodendron tulipifera L.[2]
- Liriodendron × sinoamericanum P.C.Yieh ex C.B.Shang & Zhang R.Wang – an artificial hybrid of L. chinense and L. tulipifera[13]
Etymology
The generic name Liriodendron is derived from from lirio- meaning lily and -dendron meaning tree.[14]
Distribution
Liriodendron trees are also easily recognized by their general shape, with the higher branches sweeping together in one direction, and they are also recognizable by their height, as the taller ones usually protrude above the canopy of oaks, maples, and other trees—more markedly with the American species. Appalachian cove forests often contain several tulip trees of height and girth not seen in other species of eastern hardwoods.[citation needed]
In the Appalachian cove forests, trees 150 to 165 ft in height are common, and trees from 166 to nearly 180 ft are also found. More Liriodendron over 170 ft in height have been measured by the Eastern Native Tree Society than for any other eastern species. The current tallest tulip tree on record has reached 191.9 ft, the tallest native angiosperm tree known in North America.[15] The tulip tree is rivaled in eastern forests only by white pine, loblolly pine, and eastern hemlock. Reports of tulip trees over 200 ft have been made, but none of the measurements has been confirmed by the Eastern Native Tree Society. Most reflect measurement errors attributable to not accurately locating the highest crown point relative to the base of the tree—a common error made by the users employing only clinometers/hypsometers when measuring height.[citation needed]
Maximum circumferences for the species are between 24 and 30 ft at breast height, although a few historical specimens may have been slightly larger. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has the greatest population of tulip trees 20 ft and over in circumference. The largest-volume tulip tree known anywhere is the Sag Branch Giant, which has a trunk and limb volume approaching 4,000 cu ft (110 m3).[citation needed]
Paleo history
Liriodendrons have been reported as fossils from the Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary of North America and central Asia. They are known widely as Tertiary-age fossils in Europe and well outside their present range in Asia and North America, showing a once-circumpolar northern distribution. Like many "Arcto-Tertiary" genera, Liriodendron apparently became extinct in Europe due to the east-west orientation of its mountains that blocked southward migration during the large-scale glaciation and aridity of climate during glacial phases.[16]
The genus name should not be confused with an extinct genus known only through fossils. That is Lepidodendron, which entails an important group of long-extinct pteridophytes in the phylum Lycopodiophyta that are well known Paleozoic coal-age fossils).[citation needed]

Cultivation and use

Liriodendron trees prefer a temperate climate, sun or part shade, and deep, fertile, well-drained and slightly acidic soil. Propagation is by seed or grafting. Plants grown from seed may take more than eight years to flower. Grafted plants flower depending on the age of the scion plant.[citation needed]
The wood of the North American species (called poplar or tulipwood) is fine grained and stable. It is easy to work and commonly used for cabinet and furniture framing, i.e. internal structural members and subsurfaces for veneering. Additionally, much inexpensive furniture, described for sales purposes simply as "hardwood", is in fact primarily stained poplar. In the literature of American furniture manufacturers from the first half of the 20th century, it is often referred to as "gum wood". The wood is only moderately rot-resistant and is not commonly used in shipbuilding, but has found some recent use in light-craft construction. The wood is readily available, and when air dried, has a density around 24 lb/cu ft (0.38 g/cm3).[citation needed]
The name canoewood probably refers to the tree's use for construction of dugout canoes by eastern Native Americans, for which its fine grain and large trunk size is eminently suited.[citation needed]
Tulip tree leaves are eaten by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, for example the eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus).[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b Missouri Botanical Garden. (n.d.). Liriodendron L. Tropicos. Retrieved May 31, 2025, from https://www.tropicos.org/name/40007560
- ^ a b c Liriodendron L. (n.d.). Plants of the World Online. Retrieved May 31, 2025, from https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30197365-2
- ^ "Liriodendron". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2020-03-22.
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607.
- ^ "The thickest, tallest, and oldest tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera)".
- ^ Zhong, Yongda; Yang, Aihong; Liu, Shujuan; Liu, Lipan; Li, Yanqiang; Wu, Zhaoxiang; Yu, Faxin (2018). "RAD-Seq Data Point to a Distinct Split in Liriodendron (Magnoliaceae) and Obvious East–West Genetic Divergence in L. Chinense". Forests. 10 (1): 13. Bibcode:2018Fore...10...13Z. doi:10.3390/f10010013.
- ^ "Middleton Oak SC and Sag Branch Tulip GSMNP Project". February 21, 2004. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
- ^ "Landmark Trees". May 6, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
- ^ Michigan Trees
- ^ Liriodendron chinense in Flora of China @ efloras.org. (n.d.). Retrieved May 31, 2025, from http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200008462
- ^ Linné, Carl von, & Salvius, Lars. (1753). Caroli Linnaei ... Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas... (Vol. 1, p. 535). Impensis Laurentii Salvii. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358554
- ^ Liriodendron balticum P.I. Dorof. (n.d.). International Fossil Plant Names Index. Retrieved May 31, 2025, from https://www.ifpni.org/species.htm?id=9D607246-B7D7-414E-B276-6A5F7A91F9D8
- ^ SHANG, C., & WANG, Z. (2012). A new scientific name of hybrid Liriodendron — L. sino-americanum. JOURNAL OF NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY, 36(02), 1.
- ^ Wagner-Reiss, K. (2017, June 21). What’s in a Plant Name: Liriodendron tulipifera L. - Plant Talk. Plant Talk. Retrieved May 31, 2025, from https://www.nybg.org/blogs/plant-talk/2017/06/horticulture-2/whats-in-a-plant-name-liriodendron-tulipifera-l/
- ^ "Fork Ridge Tuliptree- new eastern height record!!!". Eastern Native Tree Society, Will Blozan. Retrieved Apr 29, 2011.
- ^ Chen, Jinhui; et al. (January 2019). "Liriodendron genome sheds light on angiosperm phylogeny and species–pair differentiation" (PDF). Nature Plants. 5 (1): 18–25. Bibcode:2019NatPl...5...18C. doi:10.1038/s41477-018-0323-6. PMC 6784881. PMID 30559417.
External links
- Hunt, D. (ed). 1998. Magnolias and their allies. International Dendrology Society & Magnolia Society. (ISBN 0-9517234-8-0)
- Parks, C.R., Wendel, J.F., Sewell, M.M., & Qiu, Y.-L. (1994). The significance of allozyme variation and introgression in the Liriodendron tulipifera complex (Magnoliaceae). Am. J. Bot. 81 (7): 878-889 abstract and first page
- Parks, C.R., Miller, N.G., Wendel, J.F. and McDougal, K.M. (1983). Genetic diversity within the genus Liriodendron (Magnoliaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 70 (4): 658-666 abstract and first page
- Collingwood, G.H., Brush, W.D. (1984) Knowing your trees. American Forestry Association. (L.O.C. card no. 78–52994):286-287
- Moriaty, William. The Tulip Tree in Central Florida
- Liriodendron chinense
- Liriodendron chinense trunk and flowers
- Kew: Plants: Tulip Trees, Liriodendron tulipifera & Liriodendron chinense
- Flora of China draft account of Magnoliaceae (site currently down; see google cache)
- Liriodendron tulipifera images at bioimages.vanderbilt.edu
- Botanicas Trees & Shrubs, Random House, Sydney, 2005
- World's Largest Tulip Tree In Perry County, KY