
Tuliptree
- Botanical Name
- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Min Zone
- 4
- Max Zone
- 9
- Height
- 70 to 90 feet
- Width
- 35 to 50 feet
- Flowers
- Yellowish-green with orange center, 2 to 3 inch, cup shape
- Fruit
- Cone-like aggregate of samaras, persists into winter
- Fall Color
- Clear to golden yellow
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, slightly acidic best
- Planting & Care
- Transfer balled and burlap or container grown in early spring
- Avoid hot, dry sites
- Best in slightly acidic soils, but pH adaptable
- Provide a consistent supply of moisture to prevent leaf scorch
- Tolerant of black walnut toxicity
- Has a fleshy, poorly branched root system
- Problems
- Leaf spot, partial to early leaf drop, aphids
- Varieties
- Ardis - compact, leaves are 1/3 the size of species, smaller flowers
- Compactum - dwarf, 1/2 size of species
- Aureomarginatum - variegated variety, leaves are margined with creamy greenish-yellow
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