Magnolia figo

Magnolia figo
	Blooming magnolia figo
Systematics
	Magnoliids
Order :	Magnolia-like (Magnoliales)
Family :	Magnolia family (Magnoliaceae)
Genre :	Magnolias ( Magnolia )
Section :	Magnolia sect. Michelia
Type :	Magnolia figo
Scientific name
	Magnolia figo
	( Lour. ) DC.

Magnolia Figo is a plant from the genus of Magnolia ( Magnolia ) within the family of Magnoliaceae (Magnoliaceae). It is only known from garden culture and probablyoriginated in culturein southern China .

description

bark

Branches with simple leaves

Vegetative characteristics

Magnolia figo is an evergreen , medium-sized shrub that reaches 2 to 3 meters in height and forms a densely branched, rounded crown. Initially, the bark of the twigs and short shoots, the buds, leaf stalks and on the underside of the leaf, the midrib, are covered in dense brown hair. The bark is dark gray-brown.

The alternately arranged are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The shiny green, leathery, simple leaf blade is 4 to 10 centimeters long and 1.8 to 4.5 centimeters wide, narrow-elliptical to obovate-elliptical.

Generative characteristics

The flowers smell sweet like melon and bananas. The bracts are creamy yellow and tinged with reddish, especially at the edges. The six equally shaped bracts are somewhat fleshy and measure 1.2 to 2 centimeters long and 0.6 to 1.1 centimeters wide.

The red collective fruit is 2 to 3.5 centimeters in size.

Illustration from The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants - containing colored figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters

Systematics

It was first published under the name ( Basionym ) Liriodendron figo in 1790 by João de Loureiro in Flora Cochinchinensis , 1, page 347. For Magnolia figo (Lour.) DC. are numerous synonyms : Magnolia annonifolia Salisb. Andrews , Magnolia fuscata , Magnolia parviflora flower .

Depending on the author, Magnolia figo is classified in the genus Michelia or viewed as part of the genus Magnolia .

There are around three varieties, depending on the author:

Magnolia figo var. Crassipes (YWLaw) Figlár & Noot. : It occurs in northern Guangdong Province and northeastern Guangxi.
Magnolia figo var. Figo : It occurs on the Korean island of Jeju-do and in southeastern China.
Magnolia figo var. Skinneriana (Dunn) Noot. : It occurs in southeastern China.

use

Magnolia figo is mainly used in warm temperate and subtropical climates as an ornamental plant in parks and gardens. It thrives best on slightly acidic, humus rich soils without waterlogging. There are varieties with intense purple bracts, such as 'Stubbs Purple' and 'Port Wine'.

supporting documents

Yuhu Liu, Nianhe Xia, Liu Yuhu, Hans P. Nooteboom: Magnoliaceae. : In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China , Volume 7 - Menispermaceae through Capparaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2008, ISBN 978-1 -930723-81-8 . Magnolia figo , p. 87 - online with the same text as the printed work .
Edward F. Gilman: Michelia figo. (pdf) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, October 1999, accessed July 7, 2009 .

Individual evidence

↑ Magnolia figo at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 16, 2020.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Magnolia figo. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 16, 2020.

Web links

Commons : Magnolia figo - album with pictures, videos and audio files

[Tropicos-1] Magnolia figo at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed January 16, 2020.

[WCSP-2] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Magnolia figo. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 16, 2020.