Chinese eat its fried flowers and Americans use its wood for popsicle sticks.
Chinese eat its fried flowers and Americans use its wood for popsicle sticks. Turkeys, squirrels and other wild animals eat its seeds, while a medicine obtained from its bark can relieve asthma. The first arose 65 million years ago and the 240 species live everywhere from the Himalayas to the Amazon jungle. Breeders are working on dwarf versions and types with giant flowers, but its unaltered flowers are up to 15 inches across and smell like lemon. Named for a French botanist, it is a symbol of the South, and specifically Mississippi. For ten points, name this tree with white blossoms, on the steel variety of which a horrible chick flick was made.
Chinese eat its fried flowers and Americans use its wood for popsicle sticks.
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