In the urban landscape
Majestic and regular in habit, the tulip tree is ideal for large parks and monumental avenues: it grows fast, is rarely attacked by pests, and in autumn its lyre-shaped foliage turns a uniform golden yellow.
Liriodendron tulipifera
Tulip tree
Imposing and elegant in shape, it owes its name to its distinctive tulip-like flowers.
- Habit
- Small tree
- Diameter
- 15 cm
- Height
- 9 m
- Availability
- 100
Did you know?
Its green-and-orange tulip-like flowers produce so much nectar that a prized dark honey is made from it in America; from its trunks, straight for dozens of metres, native peoples carved entire war canoes.
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