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Plant: Teddy Bear - Magnolia
Magnolia · Magnolia grandiflora 'Teddy Bear'
Size: 7 gal
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More about this plant
A compact, upright Southern magnolia reaching about 20 feet tall and 12 feet wide, dense enough to work as a narrow evergreen screen or a small specimen tree. The thick leathery leaves are glossy dark green above with reddish brown felted undersides, and fragrant white flowers six to eight inches across open in late spring and continue sporadically through summer. It holds its compact habit best in full sun, and takes moist, well drained soil over a wide pH range. Suited to foundation beds, patios and other places where a full size magnolia would outgrow the space.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A compact, upright Southern magnolia reaching about 20 feet tall and 12 feet wide, dense enough to work as a narrow evergreen screen or a small specimen tree. The thick leathery leaves are glossy dark green above with reddish brown felted undersides, and fragrant white flowers six to eight inches across open in late spring and continue sporadically through summer. It holds its compact habit best in full sun, and takes moist, well drained soil over a wide pH range. Suited to foundation beds, patios and other places where a full size magnolia would outgrow the space.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white flowers six to eight inches across open in late spring and continue sporadically through summer.
- Foliage
- Thick leathery broadleaf evergreen leaves, glossy dark green above with reddish brown felted undersides.
- Fruit
- Spherical, cone-like aggregates of follicles that ripen September to October, releasing rose-red seeds on slender red threads.
- Bark & stems
- Brown to gray and smooth when young, developing close plates or scales with age.
- Pruning
- Lower branches can be pruned to give a more tree-like form.
- Native range
- Southeastern United States
