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When do magnolias bloom? Magnolia pictures

Magnolias are beautiful and elegant, and when they bloom, they always attract many people to come and admire the flowers. So do you know when magnolias bloom? Today, the editor will introduce this to everyone.

The magnolia's appearance closely resembles a lotus. When in full bloom, it often produces large white flowers amid lush greenery, with petals spreading in all directions, making the courtyard appear in patches of green and white, with dazzling white light. Along with its fragrant scent, it makes people feel extraordinarily refreshed in body and mind. Its fresh and elegant temperament makes you have to marvel at the wonder of the creator. It is truly an ideal flowering plant for beautifying courtyards. Because its plant is tall and its flowers bloom relatively high, it sways in the wind with a spirited look, just like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, very lovely.

Magnolia is a deciduous tree. The winter buds are densely covered with pale grayish-green long hairs. The leaves are alternate. The flowers open before the leaves, upright, bell-shaped, fragrant, jade-white, sometimes with a reddish tinge at the base. The aggregate fruit has heart-shaped, black seeds.

Magnolia flowers are as white as jade, and their fragrance resembles that of an orchid. Its tree form is imposing, and the tallest can exceed 10 m. The crown is ovate. The large leaves are obovate, with a short and abruptly pointed tip, a wedge-shaped base, and a glossy surface. The young branches and buds are covered with short down. The winter buds have large scales. The flowers open before the leaves, terminal, large, 12-15 cm in diameter. There are 9 tepals, bell-shaped. The infructescence is cylindrical, brown: a follicle, splitting open after maturity, with red seeds.

Magnolia prefers light, is relatively cold-tolerant, and can overwinter outdoors. It loves high, dry conditions and avoids low humidity; waterlogging at the planting site easily causes root rot. It prefers fertile, well-drained, slightly acidic sandy soil, and can also grow in weakly alkaline soil. In the warmer south, it can bloom from December to January of the following year. Magnolia has relatively strong resistance to harmful gases. For example, if this flower is planted in a factory polluted by sulfur dioxide and chlorine gas, it has a certain resistance and sulfur-absorbing ability. Therefore, magnolia is a very good pollution-resistant greening tree species for areas with air pollution. The flowering period of white magnolia is March-May, that of Zhusha magnolia is April-May, that of purple magnolia is April-July, and that of round-leaved magnolia is June. In short, the farther south, the earlier the flowering period.

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