Introduction of Magnolia:

Magnolia, Magnoliaceae, Magnolia flowers are colorful and pleasant, fragrant and elegant, "purple bracts and red flames, for the fragrance of lotus and orchids," so the Tang Dynasty Pei Di has a poem: "Situation of the Xinyi flowers, the color and the Hibiscus." Magnolia planted alone or clump planting are very beautiful, graceful tree, branches and flowers, is an excellent garden, street greening plants, and magnolia with more than 2,000 years of history of China's traditional flowers and traditional Chinese medicine.

Magnolia is a deciduous shrub, up to 3 meters high, often clustered, gray-brown bark, greenish-purple or light brownish-purple branchlets. Leaves elliptic obovate or obovate, 8-18 cm long, 3-10 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base attenuate along the petiole down to the stipular scars, dark green above, sparsely pubescent when young, gray-green below, pubescent along the veins; lateral veins 8-10 on each side, petiole length of 8-20 mm, stipular scars for about half the length of the petiole.

Flower buds of magnolia are ovoid, covered with yellowish sericeous hairs; flowers and leaves open at the same time, urceolate, erect on stout, hairy pedicels, slightly fragrant; perianth segments 9-12, outer whorl of three sepal-like, purple-green, lanceolate 2-3.5 cm long, often falling early, the inner two whorls of fleshy, purple or purplish red on the outside, whitish on the inner side, petal-like, elliptic-obovate, 8-10 cm long and 3-4.5 cm wide; stamens are in the form of a pair of stigmas. Petaloid, elliptic-obovate, 8-10 cm long, 3-4.5 cm wide; stamens purplish-red, 8-10 mm long, anthers ca. 7 mm long, laterally dehiscent, connectives projecting into mucros; gynoecium ca. 1.5 cm long, lavender, glabrous. Aggregate fruit dark purple-brown, turning brown, terete, 7-10 cm long; mature follicles subglobose, apically shortly beaked. Flowering March-April, fruiting August-September.