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MAGNOLIA
MAGNOLIAS, named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol, are an ancient genus and it is thought that pollination was by beetles as the trees appeared before bees. Fossilised remains from the family are 95 million years old.
The main centre of distribution is eastern and southeastern Asia with a secondary centre in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies and South America.
LARGE and SPECIMEN sized magnolias are almost all grafted plants. Many are also very rare.
LARGE plants are 2-3 year old grafts and SPECIMEN plants 3-5 year old grafts.
Different Magnolia varieties grow at very different speeds and therefore the size of a LARGE or a SPECIMEN plant and the exact pot size it is delivered in can vary markedly for plants of identical age and also on time of year, since Magnolias can grow very quickly.
Many more magnolia pictures can be found on the Caerhays Website and The Garden Diary.
Buy Varieties of MAGNOLIA
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA obovata](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/Magnolia_Hypoluca.jpg)
MAGNOLIA obovata
(hypoleuca) - large obovate leaves and fragrant creamy-white flowers in May and June
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA officinalis](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/Magnolia_offinialis.jpg)
MAGNOLIA officinalis
huge ovate leaves and saucer-shaped fragrant white flowers on this rarer species
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Old Port'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_x_soulangeana_old_port_4807a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Old Port'
our vote as the best new magnolia to flower in 2011. Wine-purple petals on the outside, white inside. Grows to about 12 feet in New Zealand
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Olivia'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_olivia_2770.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Olivia'
bright yellow flowers. Another of Phillipe de Spoelberch's excellent hybrids
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Ossie's Yellow'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_ossies_yellow_7093.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Ossie's Yellow'
an excellent bright yellow magnolia which flowers from a young age and often has secondary autumn flowers with us
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Paul Cook'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_paul_cook_5031.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Paul Cook'
Lavender pink flowers outside and white inside. The colour seems a lighter form of the M. sprengeri 'Diva' pink which is one of its parents
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Peaches n'Cream'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_peaches_cream_5200~b.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Peaches n'Cream'
a cross between M. 'Yellow Bird' and M. 'Star Wars'. Cream coloured flowers with a bright purple base
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Peachy'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_peachy_2771a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Peachy'
a mixture of white, pink and yellow flowers. Ann attractive and unusual Magnolia hybrid between M. acuminata and M. sprengeri 'Diva'
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Pegasus'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_pegasus_5032.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Pegasus'
A hybrid between M. cylindrica and M. denudata. White flowers with reflexed margins flushed with purple at the base.
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Peter Dummer'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_peter_dummer_6904.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Peter Dummer'
pale pink
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Phelan Bright'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_phelan_bright_5837.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Phelan Bright'
large white fragrant flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Philip Tregunna'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnollia_philip_tregunna_2773.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Philip Tregunna'
a hybrid raised at Caerhays by the head gardener whose name it takes. Enormous pink tulip-shaped flowers early in the season
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Ruby'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/mag_pickards_ruby_2774x.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Ruby'
wine-red goblet-shaped flowers and upright habit
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Garnet'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_pickards_garnet_5178.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Garnet'
very dark wine-red fragrant flowers which are bowl-shaped
![Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit' (AGM) AWARD](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/misc/agm_large.png)
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Schmetterling'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_pickards_schmetterling_5033a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Pickard's Schmetterling'
large slender, upright flowers which are creamy white but flushed reddish-purple at the base. Holds its flowers over a long period
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