Yellow-poplar or tuliptree, Liriodendron tulipifera, is beautiful, abundant, and both ecologically and commercially important in Appalachian forests, forming pure stands after farmland abandonment. Though commonly called called poplar, it is related to magnolias, not to true poplars (Populus).

I love these trees in my neighborhood. Some of them are enormous!

Magnificent! Wanted to have one in my garden but it died on me.... Still a lot of trees left though

These are trees are increasingly used as ornamentals here in Toronto and southern Ontario generally. So stunning in full flower.

We have several of these on our property, and as a result have lots of tiger swallowtails :) there’s also one of these maybe 20 minutes from us that is the largest I’ve ever seen. The trunk takes at least three adults to reach all the way around it. It’s spectacular ❤️

Signal boost. 🌱

The smell of the tulip poplar flowers always takes me back to childhood in the 1950s. Our neighbor had an enormous one in their backyard.

And State Tree of Kentucky! Less importantly also Indiana and Tennessee.

I don't think I had ever seen these (they're not too common up here) until a couple of years ago I noticed there was a stand of them near the "Pioneer Memorial Tower". I have to assume they were brought here with the Pennsylvania Dutch in the late 1700s, or planted more recently in memory of them.