(Magnolia) Any shrub or tree of the genus having large, usually fragrant flowers and an aromatic bark, cultivated for ornament Johnson received seeds [Catesby's II A-15] of the Mountain Magnolia (Magnolia frasere) which was a tree of southeastern North America which bore fragrant creamy-white flowers from 9" - 11" across Bartram reported on his return from his journey to the country of the Five Nations that he had found "a great mountain Magnolia three feet in diameter and above a hundred feet high..." In 1744 Bartram described another to a client, John Mitchell Michael Collinson, 1746, recorded growing two A Mountain Magnolia was recorded in 1762 as the "largest and highest" in England [Leighton, 452-453]
Muscadine grape cultivar with floral flavors used mainly to make sweet white wines in the South-East and Gulf states of the U S Has some disease problems, particularly with fruit-rot
any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine
A magnolia is a kind of tree with white, pink, yellow, or purple flowers. Any of about 80 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Magnolia, native to North and Central America, the Himalayas, and East Asia. They are valued for their fragrant flowers and handsome leaves. Magnolia is one of 12 genera in the family Magnoliaceae, which contains 210 species. Magnolias are among the most primitive of flowering plants; their primitive features include long floral axes, spiral arrangement of flower parts, and simple water-conducting cells