Southern magnolia
हिम चम्पाமக்னோலியா கிராண்டிஃபுளோராമഗ്നോലിയ ഗ്രാൻഡിഫ്ളോറ
Magnolia grandiflora L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 21 m
- wide
- 12 m
Magnoliaceae
Also called Bull Bay, Evergreen Magnolia, Great flowered magnolia, Big-laurel, Bull-bay
Formerly Magnolia elliptica, Magnolia exoniensis, Magnolia ferruginea, Magnolia foetida, and 9 more
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.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. U.S.A. to TexasKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 18 m to 24 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- CreamRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension cream, white; RHS cream
- Coldest it survives
- -19.1 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -23.3 °C; RHS -15 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- タイサンボク
- Italian
- Magnolia
- Chinese
- 洋玉蘭, 荷花木蘭, 廣玉蘭
- French
- Magnolia à grandes fleurs, Laurier-tulipier
- Portuguese
- Magnólia-branca, magnólia-sempre-verde
- Korean
- 태산목
- Galician
- Magnolio común
- German
- Immergrüne Magnolie
- Catalan
- Magnòlia
- Czech
- šácholan velkokvětý
- Chinese (China)
- 广玉兰, 荷花木兰, 荷花玉兰
- Greek
- Μανόλια η μεγανθής
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Magnolia grandiflora (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.