Tulip tree

[muckefuck]

Recently, monshu said something about the "tulip trees" blooming. I asked him the same thing I've asked others--"If you call the magnolias 'tulip trees', then what do you call tulip trees?"--and got the same response I've heard before--"What's a 'tulip tree' then?" I couldn't find a really good image when I did last year's plant quiz, but it turns out it was because I didn't know to search under the Japanese name:

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[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Liriodendron tulipifera L.. The flowers lok very Magnoliaesque, but occur high up in the trees. in the same family as Magnolias. Some hapless photog probably risked his life to get that shot. :)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Maybe he was just leaning out of a window!