Tulip tree

This tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is on the east side of the Horticulture Building, on Marstellar Street. The top picture shows the new leaves appearing in spring. Last year's brown seed cones are still visible on the twigs. In the winter when all the leaves are down on trees everywhere you can tell which ones are tulip trees by looking up in the branches and these seed cones are there.

The tulip tree is Indiana's state tree. If you go to Cold Springs Road in Indianapolis about every tree all up and down that road is a tulip tree. They are old enough to have been there since the tulip tree was designated the state tree in 1931.

Pictures taken April 24, 2009.

Link to Indiana State Tree:

Link to Liriodendron tulipifera:

Link to this tulip tree in flower:

Link to this tulip tree in winter: