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Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 [a] flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae.The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in eastern North America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in South America.
Magnolia is a color named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia. As magnolias have flowers of more than one color, mainly cream or pale purple, magnolia may refer to different colors in different countries. An early use of magnolia as a colour name in English was in 1880, describing it as a "tint of cream-color". [2]
Magnolia acuminata, commonly called the cucumber tree (often spelled as a single word "cucumbertree"), cucumber magnolia or blue magnolia, is one of the largest magnolias, and one of the cold-hardiest. It is a large forest tree of the Eastern United States and Southern Ontario in Canada. It is a tree that tends to occur singly as scattered ...
It's not like a Southern Magnolia that will overwhelm you." The name implies the tree is small, and although it's not as big as some, it's still fairly large. Hutto said at maturity they reach ...
Bigleaf magnolia is found in rich mesic woods; any disturbance that lets more light reach the ground is beneficial to the establishment of bigleaf magnolia, but despite its relatively fast growth-rate when stimulated by more light, other understory and canopy trees/seedlings are usually able to outgrow and out-compete it.
A deciduous magnolia tree, the Saucer magnolia is prized for its early spring blooms, which typically grow in Zones 5 to 9. This tree tends to have a spreading habit and can grow to be a medium ...
Magnolia guatemalensis subsp. guatemalensis (Guatemala) Magnolia guatemalensis subsp. hondurensis (Molina) Vazquez (Honduras, El Salvador) Magnolia guerrerensis J.Jiménez Ram., K.Vega & Cruz Durán (Mexico) Magnolia iltisiana Vazquez (W Mexico) Magnolia krusei J.Jiménez Ram. & Cruz Durán (Mexico) Magnolia oaxacensis A.Vázquez (Mexico)
Lumber from all three species is simply called magnolia, which is used in the construction of furniture, boxes, pallets, venetian blinds, sashes, and doors, and used as veneers. Southern magnolia has yellowish-white sapwood and light to dark brown heartwood tinted yellow or green. The usually straight-grained wood has uniform texture with ...