Or really, just someone who may know more about trees and plants than I do. Which isn't saying much. Because I would be the person stranded in the forest eating poison ivy because I didn't know what it was.
Anyway...
This is a tree in the woods next to the house. Honestly, I don't remember it flowering last year. But this year it is bursting with these beautiful, almost-tulip looking flowers. This is my new favorite tree, so I'd really like to know the name! Anyone??
Update: Okay, the two people I thought would know have both let me know that this is indeed a Tulip Tree! Hence the tulip-looking flowers, right? Yes, well that did cross my mind, of course, but it just seemed a bit too obvious. And now I need to go to the library to check out a copy of "Tree Identification for Dummies. The Total Dummies Edition."
5 comments:
Why....it would be the TULIP Tree, the STATE tree of INDIANA...
See: http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/trees/in_tulip_tree.htm
Mmmm....
Well, in my defense, in all the years I lived in Indiana...I know I've never seen an actual Tulip Tree! And Doug didn't even know one existed!!
Honestly, I did not know the answer until I Googled "tulip looking flower on tree" and then looked in "images". Google is my online brain...
Lord...I hope they never go out of business...
Ha! I Googled to find out that a dendrologist studies trees! I should have just done what you did...
I guess we're square...I was stumped by the word "dendrologist".
Sounded like a Jackism to me...
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