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Liriodendron tulipifera L.

Magnoliaceae

MC ME SE North America (Canada: Ontario; USA: Wisconsin to Maine, Texas to Florida) int MW ME Eurasia (Cremea, Caucasus, S Turkey) and S Africa

MC ME SE

L[G]

hel sci hyg->mes acid

cl (emblem tree of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee States of USA) dr (bark for cough syrup or honey, bark of the roots used in tea for fever or for poultices, bark of the roots as bitter tonic and heart stimulant, bark tea used for pinworms, bark used for dyspepsia, dysentery, rheumatism, cholera infantum, for women with hysterics and weakness and as decoction to bathe snake bite, blow decoction on fractured limbs, wounds and boils, it is one of six ingredients in a steambath for indigestion or biliousness with swelling of abdomen and yellowish skin, useful in healing fever, rheumatism and digestive disorders) fd fr ma (canoes) pl (ornamental) pp (pulpwood) sa (shade) ti (bible-boxes, cabinet work, canoes, cigar-boxes, clapboard, construction work, cradles, furniture, interior finish, lumber, musical instruments, plywood, shingles)

Liriodendron procera Salisb. Liriodendron truncatifolium Stokes Tulipifera liriodendron Mill.

white tuliptree; American tuliptree, American white wood; blue poplar (USA); canary whitewood (Canada); canary wood, canoe wood, hickory poplar (USA); poplar; tulip poplar (USA); tulip tree; tulip-magnolia, tulip-poplar, tulip-tree (Canada); tuliptree; white poplar (USA); white wood, white-poplar; whitewood, yellow poplar (USA); yellow-poplar (Canada)

tulipier de Virginie; arbre aux lis, arbre aux tulipes; bois jaune (Canada); tulipier, tulipier à tulipes, tulipier américain, tulipier d'Amérique

árbol de las tulipas, tulipanero, tulipero; tulipero de Virginia (Spain)

legno giallo, liriodendro (italian); populier-amer (dutch); tulipifero americano (italian); Tulpenbaum (german); tulpenboom (dutch); tulpenboomhaut

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Latin name	Liriodendron tulipifera L.
Family	Magnoliaceae
Distribution	MC ME SE North America (Canada: Ontario; USA: Wisconsin to Maine, Texas to Florida) int MW ME Eurasia (Cremea, Caucasus, S Turkey) and S Africa
North America distribution zone	MC ME SE
Height	L[G]
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel sci hyg->mes acid
Use	cl (emblem tree of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee States of USA) dr (bark for cough syrup or honey, bark of the roots used in tea for fever or for poultices, bark of the roots as bitter tonic and heart stimulant, bark tea used for pinworms, bark used for dyspepsia, dysentery, rheumatism, cholera infantum, for women with hysterics and weakness and as decoction to bathe snake bite, blow decoction on fractured limbs, wounds and boils, it is one of six ingredients in a steambath for indigestion or biliousness with swelling of abdomen and yellowish skin, useful in healing fever, rheumatism and digestive disorders) fd fr ma (canoes) pl (ornamental) pp (pulpwood) sa (shade) ti (bible-boxes, cabinet work, canoes, cigar-boxes, clapboard, construction work, cradles, furniture, interior finish, lumber, musical instruments, plywood, shingles)
Synonym	Liriodendron procera Salisb. Liriodendron truncatifolium Stokes Tulipifera liriodendron Mill.
English name	white tuliptree; American tuliptree, American white wood; blue poplar (USA); canary whitewood (Canada); canary wood, canoe wood, hickory poplar (USA); poplar; tulip poplar (USA); tulip tree; tulip-magnolia, tulip-poplar, tulip-tree (Canada); tuliptree; white poplar (USA); white wood, white-poplar; whitewood, yellow poplar (USA); yellow-poplar (Canada)
French name	tulipier de Virginie; arbre aux lis, arbre aux tulipes; bois jaune (Canada); tulipier, tulipier à tulipes, tulipier américain, tulipier d'Amérique
Spanish name	árbol de las tulipas, tulipanero, tulipero; tulipero de Virginia (Spain)
Other name	legno giallo, liriodendro (italian); populier-amer (dutch); tulipifero americano (italian); Tulpenbaum (german); tulpenboom (dutch); tulpenboomhaut
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