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Thursday, June 2. 2016

We have wonderful readers - and they know trees

Thanks for identifying that tree yesterday. It indeed does turn out to be an Ashe Magnolia, a wild magnolia seen mostly in southern woodlands but which can be found as far north as Ohio. They seem quite happy in NYC.


You can buy them here.

Posted by Bird Dog in Gardens, Plants, etc. at 11:46 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Don't know about ash magnolias, but the traditional southern variety, magnolia grandiflora, is a mixed blessing. Grows fast and is admittedly a beauty, but can make grandiose messes of fallen leaves and rotting blossoms around where it lives (e.g. one of my side yards).
#1 BillH on 2016-06-02 12:30 (Reply)
You can buy those? Strange. They seem a rarity in the woods down here. I mostly see them around river banks like with sycamores and alders but I'm sure there's more to it.
#2 ccoffer on 2016-06-02 20:45 (Reply)
Funny how we call something "wild" when we find the progenitor of something we know well. It's as though we imagine the thing humans cultivated somehow got loose and became feral.

Wild onions, anyone? hehe
#3 ccoffer on 2016-06-02 20:51 (Reply)

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