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Magnolia ovoidea is a rare, critically endangered forest tree from southeastern Yunnan, China, with fewer than 50 known individuals, so it is not a common garden plant. It is grown only in specialist collections, and its care is best handled by botanic gardens or conservation programmes.
Magnolia ovoidea is a species of flowering plant in the family Magnoliaceae. It is a tree endemic to southeastern Yunnan in south-central China. There are only four small subpopulations of this critically endangered species. The total population was estimated at less than 50 individuals as of 2007.
This is a forest tree growing up to 10 meters tall. The leathery leaves are up to 14 centimeters long. The flower has eleven leathery tepals. They are yellow-green in color, the innermost taking a purple tinge.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Magnolia ovoidea 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.
