On a recent Friday afternoon, Youfang Duan and Tim Victorio slowly drizzled a second coat of epoxy onto large slabs of milled and sanded poplar wood, then smoothed it out with small scrapers to make ...

Q: I planted this tulip poplar tree about 24 years ago, and I've never had any problems until late last summer. I noticed several limbs were bare and almost a black color. Some of the bark seemed to ...

Named for its distinctive tulip-shaped blooms, our state tree is the tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera). It’s a beautiful tree and can be found in every county in Tennessee. As North America’s ...

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In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee teaches you about the state tree of Indiana, the tulip tree. It is also known as the tulip poplar or yellow poplar, although it ...

A tulip tree’s spring flowers are one of spring’s best sights, though they’re often easy to miss since they bloom high up in the canopy. Even after the blooms are gone, the uncommon leaf shape adds ...

Leaves – Deciduous; about 5”; generally 4-lobed; lobe margins entire; base and apex nearly truncate or notched. Twigs & Buds – Stout; reddish-brown; bitter; with conspicuous stipule scars encircling ...

Between preparing for Thanksgiving and decorating my house for Christmas, I only had two mystery plant challenges this week, but a friend asked about a variety of camellia so I added it too. Here they ...

Beautiful yellow and white flowers often appear on our pathways in April through June. These were dropped from a nearby tulip tree, named Liriodendron tulipifera for its tulip-shaped flowers. The ...