Magnolia cordata Woodlanders Introduction flaky bark

flaky bark

and the fragrant spring flowers

the sixteenth-century Sevillian physician who chronicled the plants of the New World

the clean pyramidal outline

into a fragrant shrub

Magnolia cordata Woodlanders Introduction flaky barkMagnolia cordata is the yellow cucumbertree, a smaller, more garden friendly cousin of the towering cucumbertree magnolia and, botanically, a variety of it, Magnolia acuminata var. subcordata. Where the parent species climbs seventy feet and hides greenish flowers high in the canopy, this yellow flowered form stays a modest tree of twenty five to thirty five feet and carries the trait breeders have chased for generations: tulip shaped blooms of clear,