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Help ID Another Tree.

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Posted by emeraldangel Zone 7 (My Page) on
Mon, Jul 24, 06 at 13:37

My new yard is quite large and I really want to landscape it (even though I'm new at all this.). I'm confused by a strange plant or tree that is between the hedges and my house. I plan on removing them, but I'd like to know what they are. I might just move them to a new location in the yard. I have images I uploaded to my own website.


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Tulip Poplar, often called Tuliptree. Liriodendron tulipifera is the Latin name.

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And considering that they can grow to 100 feet tall, do consider moving it much farther from your house :) I mean, think about how wide the trunk is when the tree is 50' tall - and that's possible in 15 years.

link is to info on tulip poplars - probably more than you want to know, but it's interesting!

Here is a link that might be useful: tulip poplars

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Ah, Thank you. My mom was convinced they were Kudzu >_< Ha! I already knew they weren't. I had to do everything to keep her from ripping them out of the ground and killing them. I told her I'd ask someone online, and she said once someone told me it was Kudzu, I'd wish I had let her destroy them. (like ripping Kudzu out would stop it's runners and nodes bleh.) Now I can gloat. There are two of these pretty little beauties between the hedges and the house, I can't wait to see those babies grow and bloom in a few years. Thanks for helping me save their lives. I can show my mom and she'll help me move them. She's got a green thumb and can grow anything, but she doesn't know how to identify some things obviously. LOL! Thanks again.

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Here's a bouquet for your Mom.

Here is a link that might be useful: For Mom

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Hahahaha! Funny. I can see where she made the mistake though. The leaves do look slightly simmilar in shape cept the middle on the Kudzu leaf comes to a point and the middle of the Tulip Poplar leaf has an inward arch. Heck, my mom is like 73 years old and blind in one eye. She's entitled to make mistakes at her age. LOL!

  
 

 

 


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