Poplars also include Quaking Aspens (Populus tremuloides) and Eastern Cottonwoods (Populus deltoides)… and while I think it would make sense to just call them all various Poplars, at least they aren’t named after a genus that is a different and completely unrelated tree family.
Even if you don’t know the scientific name, the shape of the leaves alone give some indication that it’s unrelated to Poplars. Poplar leaves are generally spade shaped with teeth, where the tulip poplar has no teeth and has a very unusual notched palm shape. In fact, I am not sure what the Tulip Poplar IS related to, if anything. It’s just a weird tree. Cool, but weird. Not unlike myself!
which one is the poplar because i have a leaf collection and I have the one on the upper left corner
I read it over and over and over
Seth, the upper left is the quaking aspen.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuu guys are retarded there just leafs r tards im also 11 years old
i cant believe you guys talf about leafs all day im also 11 years old
I first encountered the “Tulip Tree” and as a name in a play. I’d always wondered what one was, but they’re not terribly local to my particular part of the Midwest, thus I hadn’t encountered them in the wild. Decades later I met a “Yellow Poplar” walking through a rather Victorian park well known as a repository of slightly exotic trees. Poplar, too, was a tree more familiar as a name than in the flesh. Cottonwoods I knew quite well, but I was unaware they were the commonest local representatives of the type, thus I took “Yellow Poplar” or “Tulip Tree” to be the standard. Oops. Of course I continued to wonder why they should have the floral name for perhaps another year until one chanced to demonstrate for me, as if in answer to the question. And it was several years more ere I learned that a “Yellow Poplar” was indeed no poplar at all. Lovely trees. Terrible names. Liriodendron seems much more fitting.
The Yellow Poplar is in the Magnolia family.
Jasmine, as you can see that some people go to school and do leaf projects to be successful in life. Unlike you, you don’t go to school