| Scientific Name: | Magnolia x soulangeana |
| Common Name: | saucer magnolia |
| Family Name: | Magnoliaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Elliptic, Obovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Pink, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Follicle, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, most blades elliptic-obovate,10-18cm long x 7-13cm wide, margin entire, apex apiculate, underside pubescent; flowers fragrant, goblet-shaped, most with 9 tepals 7-18cm long x 5-8 cm wide, rose-pale purple outer and pink-white inner tepals, buds open before leaf buds, Mar-Apr; fruit aggregate, red-brown, 8-10cm long, seeds 2-3 per follicle, orange-red, 5-9mm long,. Winter ID: twigs smooth, brown, lenticels whitish, flower buds ~2cm long are covered with dense hairs, leaf buds 3-5mm long with much shorter hairs. | |