Magnolia virginiana var. australis Best Seller Then came a small Chinese

Then came a small Chinese tree with a long and tangled paper trail

so the whole shrub seems dappled with light even before the flowers open

the Finnish-Swedish naturalist who traveled British North America in the mid-eighteenth century and sent plants home to his teacher

That does not last

scarlet-red tubular flowers

Magnolia virginiana var. australis Best Seller Then came a small ChineseMagnolia virginiana, the sweetbay magnolia, has long been a tree of distinction in the American landscape, ranging from the cool wetlands of Massachusetts to the Gulf Coast. Across that span the species wears two very different guises. In the northern states the sweetbay is a smaller, often shrubby tree that drops its leaves in winter; in the Deep South the species reaches fullest expression as Magnolia virginiana var. australis, the evergreen