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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 'Watermelon'
large, pink flowers, semi-double.
MAGNOLIA wilsonii
pure white pendulous saucer-shaped flowers
MAGNOLIA wilsonii 'Eileen Baines'
double white scented flowers with crimson centre.
MAGNOLIA 'Wim Rutten'
flowers purple on the outside and white to pale pink on the inside. Narrow habit.
MAGNOLIA 'Yaeko'
'Ann Rosse' x liliiflora. Large red-purple flowers with 9-12 tepals. These open flat, later reflexing
MAGNOLIA 'Yellow Fever'
a hybrid between M. acuminata and M. denudata. Flowers are yellow in bud fading to cream and highly scented
MAGNOLIA 'Yellow Lantern'
(M. acuminata subcordata x M. soulangeana 'Alexandrina') - fastigiate small tree with precocious tall tulip-shaped pale lemon flowers and abundant seedheads
MAGNOLIA yuchelia
although deciduous this is one of the first crosses between a michelia and a magnolia. It has the scent of a michelia with long drooping flowers which are pink outside tinged and striped with green and white inside. Limited availability
MAGNOLIA zenii
conical habit and fragrant small white flowers streaked rose-purple later towards the base
MAGNOLIA zenii 'Pink Parchment'
a pinkish form of this small growing magnolia which is closely related to M. denudata