I can see 🌷︎ American tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera

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Also called:

• oonseentia (Miami-Illinois language),
• 🌷︎ tulip poplar (its flower looks like a 🌷︎ tulip flower) and
  ◼︎ yellow poplar (although not part of aspen/​cottonwood/​poplar  genus Populus ),
• 🌷︎ tuliptree magnolia (although not part of magnolia  genus Magnolia, but both are in magnolia / 🌷︎ tulip tree  family Magnoliaceae ),
• ◼︎🪵 whitewood (from its wood), and
• fiddle-tree (from the shape of the leaf).

Part of 🌷︎ tulip tree  genus Liriodendron in magnolia / 🌷︎ tulip tree  family Magnoliaceae.

Native to eastern 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 North America.  🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48) (color key), 🗺 map (North America, Central America),   🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).

🏛🌳︎ State tree of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)   Its 🌷︎ flowers are a major source of 🐝︎ honey.  Its 🪵 wood is used to make furniture and musical instruments.

Liriodendron hosts caterpillars of 17 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas. 🌳︎🐝︎ Trees for Bees

This plant is known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula.

Planting info (SW Michigan). 

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