Liriodendron tulipifera (Tulip tree): Flowers
		Trees begin to produce flowers at 5- to 8-years-of-age. Flowers appear in spring after the leaves have emerged, as large, tulip-shaped, solitary blooms at the ends of the branchlets. The greenish-yellow, cup-like flowers are usually too high to view up close, but have a surprising band of bright orange on the inside and a central, cone-shaped axis bearing the sexual structures.