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Magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia grandiflora
Magnolia grandiflora

Southern Magnolia

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Magnolia grandiflora

Plants are 1-2 feet in height. Magnolia grandiflora (also called Bull Bay) is a very tough broadleaf evergreen. Its lustrous dark green leaves have a warm, orangish brown pubescence underside that keeps its color in even the most trying of weather conditions. Southern Magnolia have beautiful blooms that come in the Spring and Summer months. These wonderful flowers can be as large as 12 inches across and have an exquisite citrus scent that attract bees and butterflies. Given its robust nature, it is interesting to note that the Magnolia genus originally developed fibrous flowers and leaves to aid in pollination by beetle, long before the appearance of bees. Southern Magnolia is great for wet areas and remains a good urban tree. It is native to the southeastern United States and has been successfully grown as far north as British Columbia in the Western US and Columbus, Ohio in the Eastern US. Southern Magnolia is easy to transplant and is an upright grower that is pyramidal in shape. More planting instruction can also be found at boydnursery.net/planting/.

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Family: Magnoliaceae
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Leaves: Leaves alternate and are simple, evergreen, elliptic, and 5 to 10″ long and less than half as wide. Leaves are dark green above, lighter green below and often ferrugineous-pubescent beneath. Leaves are messy and never seem to decompose, drop in spring and fall.
Size: 60 to 80′ in height with a spread of 30 to 50′
Hardiness: Zone 6(7) to 9, supposedly the brown back type is hardier than the green form but no quantitative evidence supports this. For an idea of your plant zone please visit the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.
Habit: Densely pyramidal, low-branching, stately evergreen tree; generally distinctly columnar-pyramidal but some trees become as wide as tall.
Rate: Slow to medium; with water and fertilizer a fast grower.
Flowers: Perfect, creamy white, beautifully fragrant (better than the best perfume), 8 to 12″ in diameter, solitary, in May-June, sporadically there-after, usually with 6 petals, each petal thick, concave, broadly obovate and 4 to 6″ long; may take as long as 15 to 20 years for trees to flower which have been grown from seed; the literature is so full of burbles that one does not often know who or what to believe.
Diseases & Insects: Essentially problem free.
Landscape Value: Specimen, widely used and planted in the southern states; needs room to develop; a very worthwhile and handsome tree; have seen it used as a screen, grouping and hedge; an almost indispensable part of the southern garden heritage; Yankees would kill to be able to grow this tree
Soil Preference: Soil should be rich, porous, acidulous and well drained. Tolerates high soil moisture levels, but does not tolerate inundation.
Care: Water regularly after initial planting and prune as necessary to maintain form and desired shape.
Fertilization: Fertilize an area three times the canopy spread of the tree 1 to 2 times a year with a 10-10-10 fertilizer. Only fertilize an established tree.

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Weight 1 lbs

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Holly Gender Companions

Cultivated holly varieties will often be marketed with their gender equivalent tree. By their nature, cultivated varieties (cultivars) are genetically distinct plants selected for a particular trait or combination of reliable characteristics. This means that while the female and male plants may share a common genetic heritage (i.e. the same parent trees), each plant is distinctly and fundamentally different from one another. Pollination is not dependent on having the marketed counterpart, and any male that flowers at roughly the same time as the female holly will act as a berry pollinator with few exceptions. The Nellie R. Stevens & Edward J. Stevens hollies are an excellent example of this concept. The Edward J. Stevens holly is often marketed as the male companion cultivar to the Nellie R. Stevens holly; however, the two plants are distinct cultivars – i.e. the Edward J. Stevens is not simply a male clone of the female Nellie R. Stevens. Like many male companion cultivars, the Edward J. Stevens was simply found among the same planted seedlings as its female counterpart. Examples of this practice are numerous, and put simply, the practice is amusing. Some other notable pairs are Jersey Princess & Jersey Knight, Emily Bruner & James Swan, Blue Princess & Blue Prince, and Blue Maid & Blue Stallion. It is important to note, not all male/female names can be taken at face value. Sometimes male and female nomenclature is deceptive. A good example of this is the variegated Highclere holly cultivars Golden King & Golden Queen. With this pair, the Golden King is actually the female cultivar.

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The Effects of “Bubby” on Cattle

“Hundreds of cattle and sheep have died here in the past five years from bubby. The seeds only are poisonous. When a brute gets a sufficient does , from five to ten well filled pods, it makes for the nearest water and often falls dead while drinking, or it may live three or four weeks and then die. The symptoms are like those of a man extremely drunk, except that any noise frightens it. Stamp the ground hard, close to a brute poisoned with bubby, and it will jump and jerk and tremble for several minutes. That is our method of telling when they have taken it. The eyes turn white and glassy, and while lying they throw back the head and look as if dead already. Bubby does not seem to hurt a brute so much if it cannot get water. Our best remedy is apple brandy, strong coffee and raw eggs poured down as soon as possible after finding. It is certain that bubby is the most poisonous of any shrub or weed in existence here, from the fact that when brutes have once eaten it, they will take it every time they can get it. It grows on every hillside, along all branches [creeks], in every fence corner and almost everywhere here.”

– JHH Boyd [Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club v.15 1888 – p.208]

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