[LMB] Magnolias

[Patricia A. Swan]

At 05:32 PM 2/3/2008, Mark Allums wrote:

>Apropos of Magnolias...
>
>...It occurred to me today that I lived in locations that had both
>Southern magnolias, and a deciduous magnolia.  The deciduous tree
>escaped my memory at first, because I was thinking of the 
>great, green
>trees.  However, we also had at one time an interesting tree, 
>which we
>called a "tulip tree".
>--Mark Allums

Could have also been the tulip Poplar, Leriodendron tulipifera 
(sp) This name was the first Latin I ever learned.  It's the 
name of the tall tree at the edge of Grandmother's goldfish pond 
that's about 30 feet away from the humongous Southern 
Magnolia.  The tulip poplar is currently about twenty or thirty 
feet taller than the magnolia and I have to crane my neck to see 
the top of it even when I looking out the window in the upstairs 
bathroom.  It's the second tallest tree on the mountain.  There 
is a pine that's further down the mountain, that is taller than 
all the trees around and sticks up above the rest of the tree 
cover, and when you add how far down the mountain it is, it's 
probably another twenty feet taller than the tulip poplar.

Pat in North Carolina