Magnolia Kay Parris

This cultivar of the Magnolia grandiflora grows to about 5m and has the magnificent and divinely scented white, creamy flowers of the specie.

Flowering takes place from late spring through summer. What distinguishes this variety from the other evergreen magnolias is the wavy leaf margins and pinkish growing tips.

Other features include:

  • flowers are strongly scented to about 20cm long
  • blooms open in the morning and close at night for 2-3 days
  • roundish to pyramidal growing form
  • makes a good screen along a fence of feature
  • add a glossy, sub tropical feel to a garden
  • grows to 6m x 3m
  • pest free and long lived for a small tree

Tree shape

Broadly pyramidal

Mature size

Small 4-8m

Growth rate

Moderate-fast

Use

Flowers, scent, ornamental leaves, screen

Soil type

All soils, good in loamy sands

Water

Moist to moderately dry soils

Foliage

oblong-elliptic 10-20cm

Origin

N. America