Magnolias Plant Directory

Magnolia sieboldii ssp. sieboldii
Section Oyama
Epithet: after von Siebold.
H4; Diploid (2n=38)
FCC Veitch 1894, (AGM 1935, 1993, removed 2012)
Small tree to 10m, but usually shrubby to 3m by up to 8m, with reddish brown bark.
10 year height/spread: 1.5m/2m
Flowers: 6-9 petaloid broadly obovate tepals 35-60cm x 20-44mm, pure white with
crimson stamens, cup shaped initially opening to saucer shaped, nodding, pendulant on a slender
pedicle 30-0mm long; fragrant; occasionally semi-double. There is a stable double form and a form
with pink tipped flowers.
May - July.
Foliage: elliptic or ovate leaves 90-120 x 55-100mm, apex shortly acuminate. Dull green
and usually glabrous except on the veins above, usually glaucescent below and covered with fine
sericious hairs on maturity. Petioles 13-45mm covered with adpressed silvery or rarely rufous
hairs. The stipule scar on the petiole extends to half its length.
Introduced to England: about 1879, probably by Veitch.
Distribution: Japan, Korea, Manchuria and Liaoning, China (also Anhui, Guangxi, Sichuan)
300-1500m.
Recognise by: the growth habit; the late pendulant flowers; distinguished from
ssp.japonica which
is smaller and has yellowish green or otherwise pale stamens, and from ssp.
sinensis which has
usually larger foliage (to 21.5 by 15.9cm),longer petioles (to 6.4cm),and the stipule scar extending
further along the petiole.
Flowers young, very suitable for small gardens.