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The University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service’s department of plant pathology newsletter for March 28, 2012, includes sad photos of liriodendron and arborvitae branches damaged by egg-laying cicadas.

Yet populations of Liriodendron tulipifera, the tulip tree, remain one species despite being isolated for millions of years.

Again, the tulip-tree, Liriodendron, one of the most beautiful, unique, and invariable of American trees, is represented by one sole species in the present world.

Liriodendron, means lily-tree; tulipifera means tulip-bearing.

And in our groves we have such variety of arborescent prizes as no other district of London can boast, extending to the arbutus or strawberry-tree, and the liriodendron or tulip-tree.