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Accession Data:

Magnolia figo (Lour.) DC.

  • subg. Yulania sect. Michelia subsect. Michelia

  • Common Name: Banana Shrub, Port Wine Magnolia
  • Family: Magnoliaceae Juss.
  • Synonym(s): Michelia figo (Lour.) Spreng.

  • Country of Origin: SE. China, Korea (Jeju-do)

  • Description: Shrubs, 2-3 m tall. Bark grayish brown. Twigs and leaves dense. Young twigs, buds, petioles, and brachyblasts densely yellowish brown tomentose. Stipular scar reaching petiole apex. Petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate-elliptic, 4-10 × 1.8-4.5 cm, abaxially midvein with brown appressed trichomes but other parts glabrescent, adaxially glossy and glabrous, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex obtusely acute. Flowers 1.2-2 × 0.6-1.1 cm, erect, sweetly fragrant. Tepals 6, pale yellow but margin sometimes red to purple, long elliptic, 1.2-2 × 0.6-1.1 cm, fleshy and thick. Stamens 7-8 mm; connective exserted and forming a sharp tip. Gynophore ca. 6 mm, pale yellow tomentose; gynoecium ca. 7 mm, exceeding androecium, glabrous. Fruit 2-3.5 cm; mature carpels ovoid to globose, apex with a mucronate beak. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Aug. 4
  • Culture: Pruning produces abundant new flowering growth. Prefers neutral to acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil; they resent being transplanted.
  • USDA Zone: 7-10

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199800001
  • Source: Logees
  • Provenance: Genus changed - Michelia > Magnolia (synonym) CMORSE 19SEP20121
  • Accession Date: 02-04-1998
  • Bench: 3108 - EVO: Basal Angiosperms
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-29-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: magnoliids
  • Order: Magnoliales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Magnoliaceae
  • SubFamily: Magnolioideae
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Basal Angiosperms (paleodicots)
  • Beetle Pollination (cantharophily)
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China Southeast / Korea

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Friday, 19 July, 2019.
  2. Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
  3. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Friday, 19 July, 2019.
  4. Flora of China. Last accessed on Friday, 19 July, 2019.

data regenerated on Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:18:12 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Subfamily Magnolioideae

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