Magnolias are a dime a dozen in Southern landscape design. A particular magnolia has been catching our eyes, and its massive, bright green leaves are a far cry from the waxy, deep green magnolia ...

Answer: "Bigleaf magnolia," Magnolia macrophylla --- John Nelson is the retired curator of the A. C. Moore Herbarium at the University of South Carolina in Columbia SC. As a public service, the ...

Bigleaf magnolia has huge leaves. In fact, it has the largest simple leaf of all native North American plants. It also has the largest single flower of the group. The oblong leaves can reach lengths ...

This fantastic flower was produced on a tree at what we here in Columbia, S.C., call the Belser Arboretum, a 7-acre (or so) tract of forested land pretty much in the middle of the city, and two blocks ...