• Scientific Name: Magnolia grandiflora L.
• Ref: Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2:1802. 1759
• English Common Name: southern magnolia, bull bay
• Chinese Common Name: 荷花木兰 héhuā mùlán, 荷花玉兰 héhuā yùlán, 洋玉兰 yáng∙yùlán, 广玉兰 guǎng∙yùlán
• Japanese Common Name: タイサンボク [泰山木] taisanboku
• Family: Magnoliaceae
• Genus: Magnolia
• Distribution: Cultivated in provinces south of Chang Jiang [native to SE North America].

Trees, to 30 m tall but usually shorter when cultivated. Bark pale brown to gray, thinly scaly fissured. Twigs, vegetative buds, petioles, and leaf blade abaxial surfaces densely brown to grayish brown shortly tomentose but abaxial surface of young leaf blades glabrous. Twigs thick and strong. Petiole 1.5-4 cm, deeply furrowed, without a stipular scar; leaf blade elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or obovate-oblong, 10-20 × 4-7(-10) cm, thickly leathery, adaxially deep green and glossy, secondary veins 8-10 on each side of midvein, base cuneate, apex obtuse to shortly mucronate. Flowers 15-20 cm in diam., fragrant. Tepals 9-12, white, obovate, 6-10 × 5-7 cm, thickly fleshy. Stamens ca. 2 cm; filaments purple, flat; connective exserted and forming a mucro; anthers introrse. Gynoecium ellipsoid, densely long tomentose; carpels ovoid, 1-1.5 cm; styles reclinate. Fruit terete to ovoid, 7-10 × 4-5 cm, densely brown to pale grayish yellow tomentose; mature carpels abaxially rounded, dehiscing along dorsal sutures, apex long beaked. Seeds ovoid, ca. 1.4 × 0.6 cm; testa red. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 114. (Flora of China)

05/14/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

05/14/2016, Hangzhou, Zhejiang