Cucumber-tree
Magnolia acuminata (L.) L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- 14 m
Magnoliaceae
Also called Cucumbertree, Cucumber Tree, Cucumber Magnolia, Mountain magnolia, Indian-bitter
Formerly Kobus acuminata, Tulipastrum acuminatum, Yulania acuminata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Ontario to EC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 m to 24 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 11 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- magnolia acuminé
- Czech
- šácholan zašpičatělý
- German
- Gurken-Magnolie, Gelbblütige Gurken-Magnolien
- Japanese
- キモクレン
- Chinese (China)
- 渐尖木兰
- Greek
- Μπλε μανόλια
- Estonian
- teravalehine magnoolia
- Chinese
- 尖頭玉蘭
- Russian
- Магнолия длиннозаострённая
- Polish
- magnolia drzewiasta
- Hungarian
- hegyeslevelű liliomfa
- root
- ᏧᏆᎶᎦ ᏤᏆ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Magnolia acuminata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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