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Magnolia stellata - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Magnolia stellata - Flower bud - Click to enlarge!

Flower bud; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Magnolia stellata - Flower, side view - Click to enlarge!

Flower, side view; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Magnolia stellata - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Magnolia stellata - Bark - Click to enlarge!

Bark; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Magnolia stellata - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Woods Hole, Falmouth, MA, USA; 5/2006 © Sonja Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 339
Date of entry: 12.05.2006
Last update: 12.01.2020

Common name

English: Star Magnolia

German: Stern-Magnolie

Portuguese: Magnólia Estrela

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Magnoliales (19)

        Family: Magnoliaceae (7)(family description)

          Genus: Magnolia (6)

            Epithet: stellata (Sieb. & Zucc.) Maxim. (2)

Synonyms: Buergeria stellata Siebold & Zucc., Magnolia keiskei (Makino) Ihrig

keiskei => in honor of Ito Keisuke (1803-1900), Japanese botanist

stellata => star-like, or radiating like the points of a star

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: white

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