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MICHELIA
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EvergreenOval or elliptic leathery leaves are arranged alternately or spirally.
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Tall ShrubRounded, spreading shrubs and upright trees. Grown for their, usually scented, magnolia-like flowers.
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Full sunShelter from strong, drying winds
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Additional Features
Good to knowNamed after a Florentine botanist, Pietro Antonio Micheli (1679-1737). Shrubs make good courtyard garden subjects. Trees can be grown in woodland or as specimens.
Pests & DiseasesScale insects, red spider mites under glass. Honey fungus, coral spot
Place of originTropical and subtropical Asia. -
Scented PlantsScented flowers
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Soil ConditionsFertile well drained soilNeutral to acid soil
Buy Varieties of MICHELIA
MICHELIA crassipes
white fragrant flowers
Gift-wrapping available
MICHELIA doltsopa 'Silver Cloud'
vigorous habit with heavily felted brown undersides to the leaves and plentiful creamy-white scented flowers
MICHELIA 'Fairy Blush'
pale pink fragrant flowers
MICHELIA 'Fairy Cream'
profuse flowers in creamy-white
MICHELIA 'Fairy Lime'
limey-white with pink edges
MICHELIA 'Fairy White'
profuse flowers in white
MICHELIA figo
small dark glossy green leaves and brownish-purple flowers which smell of pear drops
Gift-wrapping available
MICHELIA x foggii 'Allspice'
very fragrant creamy white flowers from coppery buds in spring
MICHELIA x foggii 'Jack Fogg'
a cross between M. doltsopa and M. figo with glossy dark green leaves and fragrant white flowers tinged pinkish-purple
Gift-wrapping available
MICHELIA laevifolia
(syn. yunnanensis) - strongly fragrant white flowers from velvety buds
Gift-wrapping available
MICHELIA laevifolia 'Summer Snowflake'
fragrant white flowers in profusion with purple anthers and velvety brown buds
Gift-wrapping available
MICHELIA macclurei
we first found this rare species in the garden here 4 years ago. The scented flowers are upright and narrowly pointed. Creamy white
MICHELIA martinii
leathery leaves and fragrant brownish-yellow flowers
MICHELIA maudiae 'Touch of Pink'
this first flowered at Caerhays in 2006 and was quite stunning as well as being strongly scented. The pink fades to a dark bluish-purple at the base of the flowers
MICHELIA 'White Caviar'
lightly perfumed magnolia-like flowers
Gift-wrapping available
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