Tulip Polar

 This Tulip Polar is in our front yard.   It is really shining orange this week.

The bark of a tulip poplar, when boiled in water, was used as a medicinal tea for treating typhoid and malaria. It was used as an alternative to quinine. The inner bark was useful in treating rheumatism and arthritis. This was also a common use of the bark of many trees within the magnolia family. The tea from the bark, when boiled down, is also useful as a cough syrup. The flowers of the tulip poplar have been used, when prepared, as an ointment for soothing skin and to aid in the healing of burns.

I don't know if you can see but over by the big Oak tree are two small orange red trees. They are Dogwoods. Dogwoods are really pretty in the fall.