What’s a tulip tree? There are two plant species grown in Marin that are called tulip trees. Magnolia soulangeana, a deciduous tree with saucer-shaped white to pink flowers, is a good choice for a ...
Magnolia soulangeana, commonly called saucer or tulip magnolia, tulip tree and Japanese is a hybrid magnolia resulting from a cross of Magnolia denudata and Magnolia liliflora is not the smartest ...
One of the most beautiful sights on our Bay Area streets in early March is magnolias in bloom. It's hard to miss their spectacular flowers, especially since they appear before the trees leaf out. The ...
Tulip flowers occur in a wide range of colors except true blue—from purest white through all shades of yellow and red to brown and deepest purple to almost black. Generally, solid-colored tulips are spoken of as “self-colored,” while streaked blossoms are called “broken.” The phenomenon of color streaks in tulips is the result of a harmless virus infection that causes the self color ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
In interior Alaska and some parts of Canada, witches' broom (an abnormal outgrowth of branches of the tree resembling the sweeping end of a broom), is commonly seen on black and white spruce trees. From late fall through the winter, the brooms are dark brown or "dead"looking and are often mistaken for birds' and squirrels' nests.