Magnolia grandiflora
Southern Magnolia, Evergreen Magnolia, Bull Bay, Large-flowered Magnolia, Big-laurel, Bull-bay, Laurier Tulipier, Giant Flowered Magnolia, Southern Belle, Great Flowered Magnolia, <B>Southern Magnolia</B>, Laurel Tree of Carolina, Magnolia altissima flore ingenti candido, Magnolia grandiflora
Description
First-class, perennial, evergreen tree. Appreciated for its habitus with wide conical-pyramidal foliage suitable for providing shade during the hottest season, as well as for its elegant and scenic spring blossoming bearing cup-shaped flowers distinguishable by their large creamy-white petals and sweet, intense fragrance. The evergreen Magnolia is used as an ornamental species for gardens and parks, also in urban areas where it shows excellent resistance to heat and air pollution.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Magnoliales
- Family
- Magnoliaceae
- Genus
- Magnolia
- Species
- Magnolia grandiflora
Synonyms (13)
- Magnolia elliptica
- Magnolia exoniensis
- Magnolia ferruginea
- Magnolia foetida
- Magnolia galissoniensis
- Magnolia glabra
- Magnolia gloriosa
- Magnolia lacunosa
- Magnolia lanceolata
- Magnolia longifolia
- Magnolia maxima
- Magnolia praecox
- Magnolia pravertiana
