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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 'Big Dude'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_big_dude_2686a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Big Dude'
huge flowers which are reddish-purple outside and white inside fading rose-pink and white
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA biondii](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_biondii_2687.jpg)
MAGNOLIA biondii
small fragrant white flowers flushed purple at the base
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Blackberry Rose'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_blackberry_rose_6426.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Blackberry Rose'
(syn 'Brombeer') - reddish-purple
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Black Swan'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_black_swan_6567a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Black Swan'
dark red flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Black Tulip'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_black_tulip_4976.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Black Tulip'
the darkest purple-red flowered magnolia before the arrival of M.'Genie'
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Blushing Belle'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_blushing_belle_7288.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Blushing Belle'
pink cup-and-saucer flowers, paler pink within.
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Brixton Belle'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_brixton_belle_5342.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Brixton Belle'
campbellii type - this excellent hybrid flowers at a very young age. Large cup and saucer blooms, rich pink outside, and paler within
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Black Beauty'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_x_brooklynensis_black_beauty_2833a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Black Beauty'
probably the nearest to a black magnolia flower that you will ever see. Quite extraordinary. Slow growing but very floriferous
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Evamaria'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_eva_maria_2834a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Evamaria'
flowers purple suffused with yellow-green. Not to everyone's taste but certainly can be an unusual flower
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Hattie Carthan'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_hattie_carthan_4403.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Hattie Carthan'
bright yellow flowers with magenta mid veins and a tinge of green
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Titan'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_titan_6896.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Titan'
pale pink and cream
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Woodsman'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_woodsman_2835.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Woodsman'
flowers are an unusual combination of yellow, green and purple
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Yellow Bird'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_x_brooklynensis_yellow_bird_2836.jpg)
MAGNOLIA x brooklynensis 'Yellow Bird'
introduced at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in 1967 as a hybrid between M. acuminata and M. x brooklynensis. Flowers are yellow with a slight greenish tinge
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Spire'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_burgundy_spire_7289_l.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Spire'
narrow habit. Burgundy, upright flowers, cream within.
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Star'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_burgundy_star_5981.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Burgundy Star'
perhaps the best new red flowered New Zealand hybrid yet. Upright tulip-shaped flowers opening to a star shape
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