Species profile
Tulip Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera
7,741 on Toronto's streets — 1.12% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms May 25 – Jun 15: green-orange tulip-shaped, high in the canopy
🍁 Fall colour Sep 25 – Oct 20: golden yellow
Toronto history — Tulip tree — Carolinian, native to the southernmost tip of Ontario. Planted as an architectural specimen tree for its tall straight growth habit and orange-green flowers.
Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron. It is native to eastern North America from Southern Ontario and possibly southern Quebec west to Illinois, and east to southwestern Massachusetts, the
Planting profile (from the City of Toronto)
| Native to | Native to Ontario |
| Mature size | Large, 18m high by 12m wide |
| Growth rate | Medium |
| Sensitivity | Sensitive |
| Best site | Lawns |
| Plants under overhead wires | No |
Where they cluster
Notable specimens
- 130 cm DBH at 5 WESTGATE CRES · view →
- 90 cm DBH at 1 BIXBY CRT · view →
- 89 cm DBH at 67 WILLIAM CRAGG DR · view →
- 83 cm DBH at 66 GLENCREST BLVD · view →
- 74 cm DBH at 64 BEDFORD PARK AVE · view →
- 73 cm DBH at 14 BERNARD AVE · view →
- 69 cm DBH at 47 ROBERTA DR · view →
- 67 cm DBH at 20 COLLEGE ST ETOBICOKE · view →