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Plant: Claudia Wannamaker - Magnolia
Magnolia · Magnolia grandiflora 'Claudia Wannamaker'
Size: 7 gal
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Mature size
More about this plant
A vigorous selection of the native Southern magnolia reaching about 50 feet tall and 40 feet wide with a broad pyramidal form that is more open than 'Bracken’s Brown Beauty'. Leathery leaves 5 to 10 inches long are glossy dark green above with rusty brown felt beneath, and fragrant creamy white saucer shaped flowers open earlier than most Southern magnolias. Cone like fruits ripen in fall and release rose red seeds on slender threads that birds and small mammals eat. It takes sun or part shade in a wide pH range and tolerates salt, wind, wet soil and urban conditions. It needs real room, and expect leaf and fruit litter beneath it.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 50 ft tall and 40 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 6a-10b
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A vigorous selection of the native Southern magnolia reaching about 50 feet tall and 40 feet wide with a broad pyramidal form that is more open than 'Bracken’s Brown Beauty'. Leathery leaves 5 to 10 inches long are glossy dark green above with rusty brown felt beneath, and fragrant creamy white saucer shaped flowers open earlier than most Southern magnolias. Cone like fruits ripen in fall and release rose red seeds on slender threads that birds and small mammals eat. It takes sun or part shade in a wide pH range and tolerates salt, wind, wet soil and urban conditions. It needs real room, and expect leaf and fruit litter beneath it.
- Flowers
- Fragrant creamy white saucer shaped flowers of six to twelve petals, opening earlier than most Southern magnolias in late spring with sparse summer repeat.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, persistent leathery evergreen leaves 5 to 10 inches long, glossy dark green above with rusty brown felt beneath.
- Fruit
- Spherical cone like fruiting clusters mature in September and October and release rose red coated seeds suspended on slender red threads.
- Bark & stems
- The bark is brown to gray and smooth when young. As the tree ages, close plates or scales develop.
- Pruning
- Lower branches tend to reach the ground and can be pruned out to appear more tree-like.
- Native range
- Southeastern United States, Maryland southwest to Texas and southeast to Florida
