The Tulip Tree 



THERE is one forest tree with a blossom so 

 beautiful that from this blossom comes its name 

 - the tulip tree or yellow poplar. The tree itself 

 is handsome, often growing to a height of one 

 hundred and fifty feet, with a clean, straight 

 stem without a branch for many feet above the 

 ground. It is the largest broadleaf tree in 

 America. Tulip trees grow especially well in the 

 mountains of the South, where some of them have 

 been found two hundred feet high, with trunks 

 ten feet in thickness. 



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