What kind of tree has tulip like flowers?

When I was growing up in the Washington, DC area, there was a tree that had large, pink/purple, tulip like flowers in the spring. Does anyone know what kind of tree this is?

What kind of tree has tulip like flowers?
It is a type of magnolia, sometimes called a tulip magnolia or Japanese magnolia.





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Reply:There is a tree called the "tulip" tree. It is in fact a Magnolia. it is a relic of a past geological era, when it was widespread throughout North America and Europe, Now grows only in Eastern United States and China, and named after the tulip -like shape of it's greenish-yellow orange-centred blossoms, does this help?
Reply:Magnolia.


In KY there are 2 kinds, the big evergreen with huge white flowers, then the smaller one that drops its leaves in the fall, and spring time has smallish (compared to the white magnolia) purple flowers that are similar to a tulip.


Up North, we only had the purple magnolia.
Reply:I know this as a magnolia (UK), not sure if that's another name for a tulip tree





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They come in all sorts of colours, really beautiful majestic trees when mature
Reply:Could be a Magnolia. Could also be a Tulip Poplar which is pretty common in the D.C. area. Look up Liriodendron tulipfera and see if that's close.
Reply:I always thought the Magnolia tree flowers looked like tulips.But this probably isn,t the answer your looking for..
Reply:a tulip tree -not very well suited for drought zones, but beautiful and unique.
Reply:I have seen the type of tree you are talking about, and I have always heard it referred to as a tulip tree.