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- May 12, 2001
State Flower and Tree
Southern Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
Bull Bay
Description One of the most beautiful native trees, evergreen with straight trunk, conical crown, and very fragrant, very large, white flowers.
Height: 60-80' (18-24 m).
Diameter: 2-3' (0.6-0.9 m).
Leaves: evergreen; 5-8" (13-20 cm) long, 2-3" (5-7.5 cm) wide. Oblong or elliptical; thick and firm with edges slightly turned under. Shiny bright green above, pale and with rust-colored hairs beneath. Stout leafstalks with rust-colored hairs.
Bark: dark gray; smooth, becoming furrowed and scaly.
Twigs: covered with rust-colored hairs when young; with ring scars at nodes; ending in buds also covered with rust-colored hairs.
Flowers: 6-8" (15-20 cm) wide; cup-shaped; 3 white sepals and 6 or more petals; very fragrant; solitary at end of twig; in late spring and summer.
Fruit: 3-4" (7.5-10 cm) long; conelike; oblong; pink to brown; covered with rust-colored hairs; composed of many separate short-pointed 2-seeded fruits that split open in early autumn.
Habitat Moist soils of valleys and low uplands with various other hardwoods.
Range E. North Carolina to central Florida and west to E. Texas; to 400' (122 m).
Discussion Planted around the world in warm temperate and subtropical regions, it is a popular ornamental and shade tree, hardy north to Philadelphia. Several horticultural varieties have been developed. Principal uses of the wood are furniture, boxes, cabinetwork, and doors. The dried leaves are used by florists in decorations.
Southern Magnolia
Magnolia grandiflora
Bull Bay
Description One of the most beautiful native trees, evergreen with straight trunk, conical crown, and very fragrant, very large, white flowers.
Height: 60-80' (18-24 m).
Diameter: 2-3' (0.6-0.9 m).
Leaves: evergreen; 5-8" (13-20 cm) long, 2-3" (5-7.5 cm) wide. Oblong or elliptical; thick and firm with edges slightly turned under. Shiny bright green above, pale and with rust-colored hairs beneath. Stout leafstalks with rust-colored hairs.
Bark: dark gray; smooth, becoming furrowed and scaly.
Twigs: covered with rust-colored hairs when young; with ring scars at nodes; ending in buds also covered with rust-colored hairs.
Flowers: 6-8" (15-20 cm) wide; cup-shaped; 3 white sepals and 6 or more petals; very fragrant; solitary at end of twig; in late spring and summer.
Fruit: 3-4" (7.5-10 cm) long; conelike; oblong; pink to brown; covered with rust-colored hairs; composed of many separate short-pointed 2-seeded fruits that split open in early autumn.
Habitat Moist soils of valleys and low uplands with various other hardwoods.
Range E. North Carolina to central Florida and west to E. Texas; to 400' (122 m).
Discussion Planted around the world in warm temperate and subtropical regions, it is a popular ornamental and shade tree, hardy north to Philadelphia. Several horticultural varieties have been developed. Principal uses of the wood are furniture, boxes, cabinetwork, and doors. The dried leaves are used by florists in decorations.