Botany Photo of the Day Magnolia macrophylla

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Bigleaf magnolia is the largest-leaved and largest-flowered magnolia species in the world. It also has the largest simple leaves of any tree in North America. Native to the southeastern USA, its habitat is “alluvial woods and sheltered valleys, piedmont“. It is listed as a species of global least concern by the IUCN Red List, although […]

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