Plant: Magnolia x soulangeana/Saucer magnolia 二喬木蘭

Magnolia × soulangeana (Magnolia denudata × Magnolia liliiflora) is called the saucer magnolia or sometimes the tulip tree. It is a deciduous tree with large, early-blooming flowers in various shades of white, pink, and purple.
二喬木蘭 (玉蘭花 × 紫玉蘭)，又稱杯狀玉蘭花，有時也稱鬱金香樹。它是一種落葉喬木，花朵大，早開，有白色、粉紅色和紫色等多種顏色。

Here are some varieties and hybrids derived from the Magnolia x soulangeana/Saucer magnolia:
以下是由二喬木蘭衍生的一些變種及雜交品種：

Magnolia ‘Athene’
Photo Date: 2022.02.15 Location: LA Arboretum

Notes for Magnolia ‘Athene’ 筆記

  • ‘Athene’ is a cross between Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei ‘Alba’ and Magnolia ‘Mark Jury’. It was developed in New Zealand by Felix Jury during the 1960s and introduced to Britain in the 1980’s.
  • Flowers have a cup-and-saucer shape, with the outer petals opening out to form the saucer and the inner petals remaining more or less closed in a loose cup.
  • Flowers are large, fragrant, white, flushed with dark rosy pink-red at the base.
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Brozzoni'
Photo Date: 2021.02.04 Location: The Huntington Library

Notes for Magnolia x soulangeana 'Brozzoni' 筆記

  • The other common name is saucer magnolia ‘Brozzonii’.
  • ‘Brozzoni’ is a second generation seedling raised in the garden of Camillo Brozzoni at Brescia, Italy in 1873. Received the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit in 1993.
  • ‘Brozzonii’ has beautify white flowers with a hint of pink. The flowers open in mid and late spring.
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Rustica Rubra'
Photo Date: 2022.02.15 Location: LA Arboretum

Notes for Magnolia x soulangeana 'Rustica Rubra' 筆記

  • Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’ flowers are large, goblet-shaped. Fragrant. They are bright rosy-pink outside and paler inside. The flowers are followed by very showy, bright red fruits.
  • A Dutch clone originating in Boskoop, The Netherlands at the end of the nineteenth century when open-pollinated seedlings of Magnolia x soulangeana 'Lennei' came into flower.
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Veitchii Rubra'
Photo Date: 2021.03.04 Location: The Huntington Library

Notes for Magnolia x soulangeana 'Veitchii Rubra' 筆記

  • I can’t find information specific for Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Veitchii Rubra’.
Magnolia x soulangeana 'Verbanica'
Photo Date: 2022.01.06 Location: The Huntington Library

Notes for Magnolia x soulangeana 'Verbanica' 筆記

  • Verbanica Saucer Magnolia is covered in abundant cup-shaped and fragrant rosy pink flowers fading to white centers in early spring. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The large pointy leaves turn coppery-bronze in fall. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.
  • Verbanica Saucer Magnolia is a multi-stemmed deciduous tree with a more or less rounded form.
  • This is a relatively low maintenance tree, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season’s flowers.

Notes for Magnolia × soulangeana/Saucer magnolia 二喬木蘭筆記

  • Magnolia × soulangeana (Magnolia denudata × Magnolia liliiflora) is called the saucer magnolia or sometimes the tulip tree.
  • It is a deciduous tree with large, early-blooming flowers in various shades of white, pink, and purple.
  • Magnolia × soulangeana was initially bred by French plantsman Étienne Soulange-Bodin (1774–1846), a retired cavalry officer in Napoleon's army, at his château de Fromont near Paris. He crossed Magnolia denudata with M. liliiflora in 1820, and was impressed with the resulting progeny's first precocious flowering in 1826.
  • Magnolia × soulangeana is notable for its ease of cultivation, and its relative tolerance to wind and alkaline soils (two vulnerabilities of many other magnolias).
  • An American variety, 'Grace McDade' from Alabama, is reported to bear the largest flowers, with a 35 cm (14 in) diameter, white tinged with pinkish-purple.
  • The cultivar 'Brozzonii' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
  • 二喬木蘭 (玉蘭花 × 紫玉蘭)，又稱杯狀玉蘭花，有時也稱鬱金香樹。
  • 它是一種落葉喬木，花朵大，早開，有白色、粉紅色和紫色等多種顏色。
  • 二喬木蘭最初是由法國植物學家埃蒂安·蘇朗熱-博丹 (Étienne Soulange-Bodin，1774-1846 年) 在巴黎附近的弗羅蒙特城堡 (Château de Fromont) 培育的，他是拿破崙軍隊的退役騎兵軍官。他於 1820 年將玉蘭花與紫玉蘭雜交，並對所得後代在 1826 年首次早熟開花感到印象深刻。
  • 二喬木蘭因其易於栽培以及對風和鹼性土壤的相對耐受性而著稱（這是許多其他木蘭屬植物的兩個弱點）。
  • 據報道，來自阿拉巴馬州的美國品種 ‘Grace McDade’ 開出的花朵最大，直徑為 35 公分（14 英寸），白色中略帶粉紫色。
  • 栽培品種 ‘Brozzonii’ 獲得了皇家園藝學會的花園功績獎。

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