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Magnolia virginiana

Sweet Bay, Sweetbay Magnolia

Native/Alien:

Native

Type:

Shrub / Tree

Bloom Color(s):

white

Size:

60 ft

Bloom Time:

April - May - June - July

Bloom Area:

Coast, Piedmont

Flower

Looking like a smaller version of Magnolia grandiflora, Sweet Bay flowers are intensely fragrant.

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Jack Spruill, Hampstead, June 1, 2009

Developing fruit

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Jack Spruill, June, 2009, Hampstead

Trunk showing pale, smooth bark

If you press the corky bark with your fingernail, it will depress and then return to its original shape.

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Paynter, Wilmington, 2011

Fruit (follicetum) with seeds

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Jorge Vigueras, 2010

Links:

 USDA PLANTS Database Record

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