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Cucumber Magnolia is not a Tulip Tree but related like a brother. Both are popularly sold as Poplar wood, which is something other.

Cucumber Magnolia is not a Tulip Tree but related like a brother. Both are popularly sold as Poplar wood, which is something other.

Cucumber Magnolia is not a Tulip Tree but related like a brother. Both are popularly sold as Poplar wood, which is something other.
Title: Cucumber Magnolia is not a Tulip Tree but related like a brother. Both are popularly sold as Poplar wood, which is something other.
Artist: Fred Rose
Date: 2013
Materials: Magnolia acuminata - Cucumber Magnolia (wood and log from Bartram’s Garden), Probably Liriodendron tulipifera - Tulip Tree (“Poplar” bought at Costa Mesa Home center), Populus trichocarpa - Western Balsam Poplar aka Black Cottonwood (from Russian River, CA), Glass, Illustration by Mary Jo Rado.
Dimensions: 45 x 20x 12
Price: $5,000
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