The yellow flowers are tulip-shaped. It’s a large tree — 60 to 80 feet — which is also deciduous. Nurseries may carry cultivars that grow only to 15 feet.

Tulip magnolia flowers generally are much larger and as the name implies, resembles a large tulip. Colors range from deep purple to pale yellow.

Once the tulip tree goes through its juvenile stage and reaches adulthood in 15 to 20 years, it produces eye-catching yellow and white flowers. Tulip trees grow tall and straight, branching in a ...

On the acreage where we lived for almost 40 years, our tulip tree was one of the most admired of all the trees. It was also the first tree we ...