Trees with Don Leopold - yellow-poplar

[@YouTuber-ep5xx]

Fantastic species. Very fast growing, wonderfully fragrant, gorgeous, big leaves, pretty flowers, and towering. Fun to watch a twig grow as it perpetually and delicately unfurls from the tip throughout the growing season, 3-4 feet per growing season even her in southern Minnesota.

[@billgateskilledmyuncle23]

We had a row of 7 of these at the edge of our yard. They were beasts. I loved them. Recently went back to where I was raised. They're still there, except one that had rot in the trunk.

[@baylorbenson8603]

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[@arlomatthias6492]

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[@baylorbenson8603]

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[@arlomatthias6492]

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[@blakespower]

it grows very fast in a clear cut area not only tall but big trunk produces tremendous amounts of seeds, also it has a Chinese cousin they have been separated for millions of years and still look the same with a few differences

[@keds93]

Please enable embedding, so we can add your videos to educational websites! (Small arboretum here.) Thanks!

[@JakeJarmel]

Liriodendron tulipifera 'Little Volunteer' is good for smaller yards. No where as big as the standard tulip poplar, but the same beauty.

[@timgiles9413]

correct me if I'm wrong, this would be a great tree for a log cabin in West Virginia.

[@rhigel2269]

Yes! There is an old log cabin at Fontana Village Resort in Western North Carolina. The tulip logs were sawed into wide planks three or four inches thick. The ends are notched to lock the plank logs together.

[@rhigel2269]

Yes, you are correct. People cut the trunks into 4 inches thick x 14 inches wide planks. So, really these cabins were built from wide thick planks of yellow popular, so you could call these houses plank cabins. There is one on exhibit at Fontana Village near Fontana Dam, NC.

[@blakespower]

neither a Tulip or a Poplar

[@boomer3150]

The ideal name is Tuliptree.

[@aishairam4654]

Pls send some cuttings in pakistan

[@TheTreeSeer]

Check data please--190' tall and 434 years are the max documented. re big places, mine is 18' from my house, 103' tall, and fits fine.

[@jimarsenault394]

He was speaking in approximations not detailed scientific data.

[@rhigel2269]

"Often reaching two hundred feet tall"! Where? I strongly disagree that this species gets two hundred feet tall.

[@StickyRig]

Historically, in the Southern Appalachians specifically, I feel pretty confident in saying it wasn’t uncommon for them to attain such a height. It was kind of misleading for him to say “often reaching 200 feet tall” in the present tense

[@ericjorgensen8028]

In my area they do get very tall. Across the street from the house I grew up in there were tulip trees that were about 200' ... about 6' diameter trunks. That was on Long Island NY. Now I. Westchester county NY and there is one of these trees a few houses away that is over 150' with a trunk of about 4-5' in diameter. There are some very large ones in the parks around the NY city area. And there were some big ones at the NYBG in front of the library building...those are starting to be replaced lately.

[@Ack5100]

Colonial America used these trees as ship mast. Grow straight, tall and huge.

[@rhigel2269]

@@Ack5100 : Prove it! Prove a soft wood like "yellow poplar" was used as ship masts. Why use a soft wood, when there was the Atlantic White Cedar available that had a proven track record as a superior tree to tulip trees as ship masts.

[@rhigel2269]

@@ericjorgensen8028: Go back and use math skills to measure the actual heights. Both the cub scout and boy scout handbooks show the method and the math techniques to measure actually tree heights. You can go online and watch a video that shows you how to do the skill easily. You will find that your trees will be far shorter that you guessed. If you check the State of New York' list of tall trees, you see where the tallest tulip trees are located in New York.

[@rhigel2269]

All: I am going to tell all you poor researchers again, that Tulip trees were not used for ship masts, and rarely, if ever obtained the height of 200 feet in the past. England used the Eastern White Pines of the New England colonies for ship masts. For all you that claim there are 200 feet trees, prove it. In North Carolina there is a virgin forest, Joyce Kilmer forest, never, logged, known for the large Tulip trees. However, not one is close to 200 feet tall, though many are old mature specimens of 8 feet in diameter. Thomas Jefferson planted two Tulip trees next to his mansion, Monticello. Today both trees are cut down because their trunks were hollow. They were mature giant specimens, but either was close to 200 feet tall. One of Cornelis Vanderbilt's grandson built 'The Biltmore Mansion' near Asheville, North Carolina. He had perhaps fifty Tulip trees planted along the U shaped driveway in the front of the mansion. After 100 years the trees were removed. None of the trees grew much past 100 feet. There is organization or society that tracks the different States champion trees by species as well as the States themselves tracking all their champion trees species. Sorry, but tulip trees are not growing close to 200 feet tall. Get your tape measures and your math skills ready to check all these examples, that some individuals are writing as 200 feet. And check the lumber books that reference what Tulip (yellow poplar wood) trees are really used. Then read about Eastern White Pine, the real trees used for ship masts.

[@palmettoms9886]

The tallest currently known Tulip Poplar (last I checked) is in the Smoky Mountains and is 191ft probably a bit taller now if still doing well. There were definitely 200ft + Tulip Poplar as described by early naturalist to North America. Eastern forests were quite literally scraped off the map and most all of these giant trees across many species destroyed. If one could go back in time the environment would be almost unrecognizable to most and one could bear witness to many species of trees at incredible sizes not seen today. I wouldn’t doubt there are still a few 200ft+ hidden throughout the hills and hollers here in the South..but certainly not the norm nowadays or else we’d have a few known recorded examples of this. Instead of saying heights of 200ft or more being common I’d definitely say heights of 100ft more are common as I know of many 100ft+ Tulip Poplar just here in my area of Northeast Mississippi. The Southern Appalachians and it’s foothills which reach all the way to Northeast Mississippi here are where most optimal growth for the species is found. Many young trees here are often at 100ft in only around 30 years old. As far as ship masts and what was used I doubt it would be Tulip poplar and not sure but Eastern White Pine definitely sounds more plausible. In another 50-100 years if environments are still stable enough we should definitely see many of the trees today getting old and attaining the 200ft threshold.