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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 'Butterflies'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_butterflies_2689a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Butterflies'
a hybrid between M.acuminata and M.denudata with rich yellow flowers and red stamens
![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 'Caerhays Belle'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_caerhays_belle_2690x.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Belle'
a hybrid raised at Caerhays Castle with huge saucer-shaped salmon-pink flowers
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Philip'
deep pink flowers with much paler insides to the tepals
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Splendour'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_caerhays_splendour_6897.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Splendour'
vibrant pink
![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 'Caerhays Surprise'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_caerhays_surprise_2691x.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Caerhays Surprise'
a hybrid between M. mollicomata and M. liliiflora 'Nigra' which flowers at a young age and is suitable for smaller gardens. The flowers open a dark purplish-red and fade to mauvish-purple
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Cameo'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_cameo.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Cameo'
pinkish-red outside to the tepals and white flushed purple within
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Betty Jessel'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/4527_m_campbellii_betty_jessel.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Betty Jessel'
one of the very best but still too little known hybrids with large deep crimson flowers opening late in the season
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Charles Raffill'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnollia_campbellii_charles_raffill_2694.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Charles Raffill'
rose-purple flowers on the outside and white with a marginal pink flush on the inside
![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 campbellii 'Darjeeling'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_darjeeling_2695e.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Darjeeling'
dark rose coloured flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_campbellii_lanarth_2701.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth'
large cyclamen-purple flowers of this subspecies of M. mollicomata raised at Lanarth
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Princess Margaret'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_campbellii_princess_margaret_2699a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Princess Margaret'
large flowers red-purple on the outside and cream inside.
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Sidbury'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_campbellii_sidbury_2700.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Sidbury'
raised at Sidbury Manor in Devon this is one of the earliest campbellii crosses to flower in Cornwall with attractive lighter pink flowers
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Werrington'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_campbellii_werrington_5836a.jpg)
MAGNOLIA campbellii 'Werrington'
a Forrest original which grows at Werrington Park in North Cornwall
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Carlos'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_carlos_2702.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Carlos'
good yellow flowers but sometimes appearing with the leaves. A cross between M. acuminata var subcordata and M. denudata
![© Burncoose Nurseries, all pictures for illustrative purposes only. MAGNOLIA 'Cecil Nice'](https://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/img/products/squaremedium/magnolia_cecil_nice_2703.jpg)
MAGNOLIA 'Cecil Nice'
an absolute picture when in full flower with row upon row of upright white flowers
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