Bigleaf magnolia has huge leaves. In fact, it has the largest simple leaf of all native North American plants. It also has the largest single flower of the group. The oblong leaves can reach lengths ...

Something about big flowers and foliage is so enticing to me. The first time I saw Magnolia macrophylla was at a botanical garden in Kentucky, and I was totally taken aback by the gargantuan leaves ...

The Magnolia macrophylla nestled between the Nevin Welcome Center and the Lewis Education Building in the Cornell Plantations botanical garden is a striking sight: large fluffy leaves that can stretch ...

This year’s show of magnolia blooms was tarnished. The flowers on many early-blooming magnolia trees turned brown and crisp like potato chips as a result of sharply cold nights in early April. Petals ...

I was going to start by saying let’s talk about one of my favorite plants; I have so many, that this wouldn’t be true. Let’s talk about one of my many favorites. How can you not like magnolias when ...

[imgbelt img=Silene320.jpg] It’s hunting season. Two Kentucky plantsmen head unarmed into the territory of putty root and pink muhly, finding the highest waterfall in the state and othr wonders. Leaf ...

Ashe magnolia, a beautiful native tree, is a subspecies of the much larger Magnolia macrophylla. And unlike more commonly planted Magnolias such as sweet bay and Southern magnolia, Ashe magnolia is ...

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