Q: I'm looking for a cowcumber tree, which I think is a kind of magnolia with huge leaves. Is there a reason I've never seen one in a nursery – are they hard to grow? Can you maybe recommend something ...

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 ...

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Something about big flowers and foliage is so enticing to me. The first time I saw Magnolia macrophylla was at a botanical garden in Kentucky, and I was totally taken aback by the gargantuan leaves ...

The Magnolia macrophylla nestled between the Nevin Welcome Center and the Lewis Education Building in the Cornell Plantations botanical garden is a striking sight: large fluffy leaves that can stretch ...

This year’s show of magnolia blooms was tarnished. The flowers on many early-blooming magnolia trees turned brown and crisp like potato chips as a result of sharply cold nights in early April. Petals ...

- large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base ...

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