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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
MAGNOLIA 'Sweet Valentine'
rose-purple tulip-shaped flowers. An impressive new New Zealand hybrid
MAGNOLIA 'Sybille'
large, pure white flowers.
MAGNOLIA tamaulipana
white flowers, resembling grandiflora
MAGNOLIA 'Theodora'
goblet shaped purple flowers
MAGNOLIA x thompsoniana
(tripetala x virginiana) - large fragrant parchment coloured flowers throught the summer even in young plants
MAGNOLIA 'Tikitere'
huge bowl-shaped flowers which are pink outside and white inside
MAGNOLIA 'Tina Durio'
large white flowers with a slight pink edge at the base of the tepals
MAGNOLIA tripetala
hardy tree with large leaves and pungent creamy flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Tropicana'
unusual green-yellow and pink
MAGNOLIA 'Ula'
large, pink flowers, cup-and-saucer.
MAGNOLIA 'Vairano'
cross between M.'Iolanthe' and M. 'Charles Raffill' from New Zealand with huge pale pink flowers white inside
MAGNOLIA x veitchii
the largest growing of all the magnolias at Caerhays Castle. White flowers in profusion which are flushed purple-pink
MAGNOLIA 'Venus'
purple-pink outside and white within
MAGNOLIA virginiana
fragrant creamy-white flowers and distinctive leaves which are blue-white underneath. In our Cornish climate this is a semi-evergreen tree in a mild winter
MAGNOLIA 'Vulcan'
a popular magnolia hybrid with unusual shaped flowers, the petals of which curl in on themselves as they open and are almost frilly. Light pink flowers from an early age