Liriodendron tulipifera L., Magnoliaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, Score: 2 (Go to the risk assessment)

Common name(s): [more details]

English: canary whitewood, tulip tree, tulip-poplar, yellow-poplar

French: bois jaune

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Trees, single-trunked, to 45 m. Bark light gray, thick, deeply furrowed. Stipules paired, light green, elliptic to oblanceolate, 20-45 mm; petiole 5-11.5 cm. Leaf blade commonly with 2 shallow upper lobes and 2 lateral lobes at broadest part, or sometimes squarrose and barely lobed, (6.5-) 7.5-15 (-23.5) x (8.5-) 12.5-18.5 (-25.5) cm; surfaces abaxially glaucous, adaxially bright green. Flowers campanulate; spathaceous bract 1, brownish, notched; tepals erect, adaxial orange blotch sometimes gummy, outermost tepals green to glaucous; stamens 20-50, 40-50 mm; filaments white; pistils 60-100. Samaracetums 4.5-8.5 cm, with numerous (1-) 2-seeded, imbricate samaras 3-5.5 x 0.5-1 cm, falling separately at maturity; receptacles with basal pistil persistent. Seeds (1-) 2"  (Flora of North America online).

Habitat/ecology:  In North America (native), "rich woodlands, bluffs, low mountains, and hills; 0-1500 m"  (Flora of North America online).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Eastern United States and southeastern Ontario, Canada; cultivated elsewhere (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Hawai‘i (Big) Island	introduced cultivated	Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. (2005) (p. 378)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Hawai‘i (Big) Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Parker, James L./Parsons, Bobby (2012) (p. 70) Voucher cited: J. Parker & R. Parsons BIED144 (BISH)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	Maui Island	introduced cultivated	Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. (2005) (p. 378)
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1980) (voucher ID: BISH 598719) Taxon name on voucher: Liriodendron tulipifera L.

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Canada Canada	Canada (country)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Ontario

Also reported from
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
United States (continental except west coast) United States (other states)	United States (other states)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)
United States (continental except west coast) United States (other states)	USA (Florida)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Information from the U. S. Forest Service Fire Effects Information System.
Fact sheet from the "Silvics of North America".

Additional online information about Liriodendron tulipifera is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Liriodendron tulipifera as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Liriodendron tulipifera may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1980. Voucher specimen #BISH598719(Fosberg, F.R. 60547).

Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 2011. Flora of North America North of Mexico (online edition).

Parker, James L./Parsons, Bobby. 2012. New plant records from the Big Island for 2010-2011. In: Evenhuis, Neal L. and Eldredge, Lucius G., eds. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2011. Part II: Plants. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. 113:65-74.

Staples, George W./Herbst, Derral R. 2005. A tropical garden flora: plants cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. 908 pp.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.