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Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia

Rooted Cutting Pricing - Shipping Included
Qty1510-3040+
Price per Plant$22.50$7.00$6.50$5.00

Magnolia grandiflora ‘Bracken’s Brown Beauty’

The Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia is considered to be one of the best Southern Magnolia cultivars. Relatively compact and smaller than the species at maturity, the cultivar is not as small as the Southern Charm or Little Gem varieties but grows fuller thanks to its habit of forming multiple breaks from each shoot. Leaves, flowers, and fruits are all approximately half the size of the species and the tree only reaches 30 feet tall at maturity. The tree was discovered among Southern Magnolia seedlings in 1968 by Ray Bracken in Easley, S.C. and subsequently patented and introduced by Ray Bracken Nursery. Planting instruction can be found at boydnursery.net/planting/.

Classification

Diseases & Insects

Problem Free

Family

Magnoliaceae

Flowers

Perfect, creamy white, beautifully fragrant (better than the best perfume), 6" in diameter, solitary, in May-June, sporadically there-after, usually with 6 petals, each petal thick, concave, broadly obovate and 4 to 6" long; fruit is bright red, cone shaped, woody, and aggregate, and 2-3 inches long

Growth Rate

Hardiness Range

zone 5b – 9b *need help finding your hardiness zone?

Leaves

Leaves are alternate and simple, evergreen, elliptic, and 5 to 6" long and less than half as wide. Leaves are dark green above, lighter green-brown below and often ferrugineous-pubescent beneath; leaves are messy and never seem to decompose after dropping in the spring and fall

Plant Type

Primary Features

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Size

20-30 feet tall at maturity with 10-15 foot spread

Sun Requirement

What am I buying?

We sell Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolias as rooted cuttings. Taken from Wikipedia, “a plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil. If the conditions are suitable, the plant piece will begin to grow as a new plant independent of the parent, a process known as striking.” Put more simply, a rooted cutting is a small clone of the specimen from which it was taken. As a genetically identical clone, the cutting shares all the characteristic traits and attributes of the cultivated variety. Our rooted cuttings are 3-6 months old and 4-8 inches in stem length above the soil line. They are clipped from our private stock plants and grown in root pruning trays at our temperature controlled greenhouse.

When are plants collected?

Once your order is placed, your plants will be collected as soon as the weather permits. This time-frame is normally within 3-7 days. During heavy order periods (April-May), this collection time can grow to 10-14 days.

How are plants shipped?

All shipments are mailed via USPS Priority Mail using PirateShip.com. We monitor national weather conditions and temperatures for shipments. If at any time your order must be delayed for weather concerns, we will contact you by phone and/or email. The day that your order is completed or partially shipped, you will receive an email containing your package tracking number. You can also find this updated information by logging into your account on our website.

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