A Magnolia tree on Lafayette Avenue, between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is one of only two trees that have been designated as New York City landmarks. This tree, of the species ...

Accustomed as American gardeners are to planting so many plants from other regions, it comes as shock when a choice tree turns out to be a native. Particularly when it is as wondrous as the Magnolia ...

Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...

Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), or just magnolia, (named after Pierre Magnol (1638 to 1715), a French botany professor) has large, showy flowers, making it the most beautiful ornamental tree ...

While there are over 200 species of magnolias (magnoliaceae) worldwide, when someone says look at that beautiful magnolia tree, there is a good chance they are referring to the quintessential native, ...

Magnolias can bloom in late winter, spring, summer, or fall depending on the variety. Six hours of direct sunlight today will ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The phyllosphere contains a diverse bacterial community that can be intimately associated with the host plant; however, few studies have ...

A landmarked brownstone? Sure! A landmarked church? Of course. But a landmarked tree? Yep, Brooklyn’s got one. Bed Stuy’s southern magnolia at 677 Lafayette Avenue is New York City’s only living ...

Magnolias are magnificent plants, with thickly textured tepals resembling the sort of heavy satin normally worn by upmarket brides and debutantes of old. This ancient group of plants evolved some 95 ...

In the days when you could get into Kew Gardens for an old penny stamped with Britannia on the back, I regularly travelled on the 65 bus from Ealing Broadway with a rain mac and a packed lunch. By the ...

We analyzed a naturalized population of Magnolia grandiflora L. occurring north of its native range in a temperate deciduous forest of the North Carolina piedmont. The population was likely expanding, ...