The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. REGION — Two readers came forward to state there are more tulip trees in the ...

“I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” — Henry David Thoreau One of my ...

What’s a tulip tree? There are two plant species grown in Marin that are called tulip trees. Magnolia soulangeana, a deciduous tree with saucer-shaped white to pink flowers, is a good choice for a ...

Tall and stately, the tulip tree catches the eye at any time of year. So it’s no wonder a majestic, 100-foot tall specimen covered in ample yellow-green and orange blossoms stopped me in my tracks ...

Prized for their fast growth, height and ornamental features, tulip trees are a popular shade tree, especially throughout the Eastern U.S. In fact, these hardy, easy-to-care-for trees are the state ...

Leaves – Deciduous; about 5”; generally 4-lobed; lobe margins entire; base and apex nearly truncate or notched. Twigs & Buds – Stout; reddish-brown; bitter; with conspicuous stipule scars encircling ...

One sultry day last July, under skies dimmed by smoke from forest fires burning in Canada, Neil Pederson, 55, a senior forest ecologist with Harvard Forest, searched Green Lakes State Park for old ...