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Liriodendron tulipifera
Tuliptree
Magnoliaceae
Located on the Great Lawn in front of Beach Hall.
- leaves large, unusual, roughly square-shaped with a truncate tip,
4 lobed
- leaves alternate, bright green, yellow in autumn
- buds valvate, flattened, large, like a duck's bill
- flowers large, in mid-spring, resemble a cream and orange tulip
- fruit is an aggregate of samaras with a central woody axis than
persists through the winter
- bark gray-brown with ridges and furrows
- habit is a large tree with a massive, straight trunk
- trees often lack lower branches
View Liriodendron
tulipifera page in the UConn Plant Database
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