| Description | A hardy yellow flowering Magnolia. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (mag-NO-li-ah) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | grows best in full sun, tolerates some shade |
| Moisture | average, moist, not drought tolerant |
| Soil & Site | average to rich, well drained, slightly acid |
| Flowers | creamy yellow, star-like, 4 inches with 14 strap like tepels, have proven to be frost resistant |
| Fruit | aggregate of follicles fruit, dries to brown |
| Leaves | elliptic to ovate, bronze red turning to green as they unfurl in the spring |
| Stems | the pubescence buds are a good identification feature of this plant |
| Dimensions | small to medium size tree. |
| Cultivar Origin | A clone raised by Phil Savage of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (USA). A cross between M.acuminata subsp subcordata "Miss Honeybee and M. stellata "Rubra". |
| Author's Notes | Being unaware that Magnolia's had yellow flowers, made the first time I came across this tree a pleasant surprise. Now it is a delight to view the cream-yellow blossoms every spring at the Boerner Botanical Gardens . |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Dirr), #86-A Gardner’s Guide to Magnolias (Gardiner) |
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