I picked up that tulip poplar blossom from the forest floor and put it on the old bridge so you could see all of this at once.

tulip poplar flower.

Tulip poplar, tulip poplar you are so popular

Hello, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on tulip populars?

Indeed I do. One of my first posts was comparing poplars. In brief, if you are an American and you walk into your local Lowe’s/Home Depot, this is what you will find labeled as poplar. It’s not a true poplar, but the wood is marked similar to true poplars.

Personally, I think it’s a bit underrated. It’s a nice lightweight wood that carves well, takes stains, dyes, and paints easily, and burns well too. The grain is subtle, but can be interesting. It is just so common and mostly thought of as a utility wood. And the colors you sometimes see are mineral stains so the do fade pretty quickly. Still a great wood.

Large Tulip Poplar - November 1st 2023

A Candy-Striped Leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) on an Tulip Poplar Leaf (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Trick or treat! 🌱

And its a tulip-poplar in the sun for you! (Liriodendron tulipifera)

What time of year is it?

Teeny tiny seedling versions of trees time!

Their leaves start out in miniature form!

n206_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung. Stuttgart,E. Schweizerbart. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6666474

Spring awakening © 2023 by Kevin Nance

(Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky)

Transfer into the transformative.

Swarthmore College - August 3rd 2022

Every Spring the Squirrels like to try to eat all the Tulip Poplar Tree blossoms (Liriodendron tulipifera) but the branch ends are too spindly for them, so they clip them off the tree and eat them all over the yard...

Magnoliaceae Liriodendron tulipfera

Tulip Popular

Identification via Pl@ntNet

BIG ol' tulip poplar. By the multiple trunks from the same base, I'd guess that this tree was cut at some point and resprouted from the stump. But how long ago would that have to be - the trunks were 2 feet across each!

Omie for scale.