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Campbell's Magnolia

Magnolia campbellii

Campbell's Magnolia
Photo: Mfield, Matthew Field, http://www.photography.mattfield.com, CC BY-SA 3.0

Campbell's magnolia is a large deciduous tree from the Himalaya and southwest China, grown for its huge early-spring flowers. It needs a mild, sheltered site with deep, moist soil, and it can take many years to flower.

Family
Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, especially during establishment and dry spells.
Soil
Deep, fertile, moist but well-drained, slightly acidic loam.
Temperature
Hardy to about -15 °C when established; flowers are damaged by late spring frosts, so site it where it is mild and sheltered.
How easy
Hard
Native range
E. Nepal to SC. China
Climate
temperate

About

Magnolia campbellii, or Campbell's magnolia, is a species of Magnolia that grows in sheltered valleys in the Himalaya from eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Assam, India, east to southwestern China (southern Tibet, Yunnan, southern Sichuan) and south to northern Myanmar.

How to grow it

Magnolia campbellii is grown as an ornamental tree for its breathtaking flowers, though successful flowering is limited to mild areas with no late spring frosts. Magnolia campbellii var. mollicomata flowers slightly later and is less likely to have its flowers frost-damaged.

Young trees take a long time to reach flowering age and need deep, moist soil and a mild, sheltered site.

Other Magnolia plants

Ashe's Magnolia · Magnolia boliviana · Magnolia cararensis · Champak · Prosperous Music Smiling Tree · Magnolia coco · Compressed Michelia · Dawson's magnolia · Cloudforest magnolia · Chinese Evergreen Magnolia · Lilytree · Sweet Michelia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Magnolia campbellii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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