| Scientific Name: | Magnolia grandiflora |
| Common Name: | southern magnolia |
| Family Name: | Magnoliaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - southeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Spiraled, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Pubescent, Tomentose, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Apr-May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Red, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| One of the few large, local evergreen flowering trees; leaves alternate, most ovate-elliptic, 12-25(-30)cm long x 6-12cm wide, thick, glossy, dark green, lower surface with dense, brown pubescence; flowers solitary, 20-30cm wide, most with (6-)9-12 creamy white, fragrant tepals; aggregate of follicles, most 7-10cm long x 4-5cm wide, Winter ID: woolly, brown pubescence on terminal buds. | |