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American tuliptree

Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron. It is native to eastern North America from Southern Ontario and possibly southern Quebec west to Illinois, and east to southwestern Massachusetts, then south to central Florida and Louisiana.

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Liriodendron tulipifera
Family: Magnoliaceae
Genus: Liriodendron
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Magnoliales
Hardiness: Zone 5
Habit: tree
Bloom: Mid Spring