Magnolia figo

Common Name: Banana Shrub, Port Wine Magnolia

Family: Magnoliaceae

Synonym(s): Michelia figo (Lour.) Spreng.

Country of Origin: SE. China, Korea (Jeju-do)

Description: Shrubs, 2-3 m tall. Bark grayish brown. Twigs and leaves dense. Young twigs, buds, petioles, and brachyblasts densely yellowish brown tomentose. Stipular scar reaching petiole apex. Petiole 2-4 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 4-10 × 1.8-4.5 cm, abaxially midvein with brown appressed trichomes but other parts glabrescent, adaxially glossy and glabrous, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, apex obtusely acute. Flowers 1.2-2 × 0.6-1.1 cm, erect, sweetly fragrant. Tepals 6, pale yellow but margin sometimes red to purple, long elliptic, 1.2-2 × 0.6-1.1 cm, fleshy and thick. Stamens 7-8 mm; connective exserted and forming a sharp tip. Gynophore ca. 6 mm, pale yellow tomentose; gynoecium ca. 7 mm, exceeding androecium, glabrous. Fruit 2-3.5 cm; mature carpels ovoid to globose, apex with a mucronate beak. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Aug. ⁴

USDA Zone: 7-10

Accession #: 199800001

Accession Date: 1998-02-04

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 3108

Quantity: 1

Source: Logees

Provenance: Genus changed - Michelia > Magnolia (synonym) CMORSE 19SEP2012¹

Culture: Pruning produces abundant new flowering growth. Prefers neutral to acid, humus-rich, well-drained soil; they resent being transplanted.

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: magnoliids

Order: Magnoliales

Family: Magnoliaceae

SubFamily: Magnolioideae