Port Wine Magnolia - get Drunk on the Perfume
Michelia figo is the Botanical name for the Port Wine Magnolia. This is not a actually a plant closely related to the Magnolia trees, it's just a common name for this plant. This plant is an evergreen, ...it keeps it's leaves throughout the cooler months. Port Wine Magnolias are in bloom here in Sydney, and the flowers are deliciously fragrant, and are found in masses amongst the green leaves.. The flowers are not overly spectacular, but on a still windless night you really notice the perfume. The plant also makes a marvellous neat hedge or screen if trimmed regularly. In gardens , it is common to see a hedge maintained to a height of around 1 metre high or a little more. Without pruning, the plant will grow into a large shrub or small tree to about 3 to 4 metres.
Planted in a full sun position, the Port Wine Magnolia will flower well in Spring and early Summer. While not a really fast growing plant, give some regular water and fertilizer, it bushes up very nicely. It is suited for frost free cool-temperate, temperate and warmer climates.
I took these photos on a walk around Sydney's Northern Suburbs.
A popular fragrant shrub, Port Wine Magnolia is an evergreen flowering tree or shrub with perfumed flowers that are the colour of port wine.
Flowers will appear on old wood so it makes a good flowering and fragrant hedging plant, why is this ? Because even if you prune it it will flower… simple as that.
These are a slow growing plant, so advanced specimens will be costly. If you are looking for fantastic flowers, this is not the plant for you either, the flowers are small and fairly insignificant, but they smell great.
https://www.nurseriesonline.com.au/plant-index/trees-shrubs/magnolias/port-wine-magnolia/
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Dense bushy shrub with dusky green glossy leaves. Cup shaped ivory tinged yellow flowers, with their base and margins tinged rose to purple. The flowers have an exquisite fragance, they appear in spring with a smaller autumn flush. It will grow in a wide range of sites but performs best in good soil in a semi-shade site. Fantastic for clipping into a low hedge or topairy shape. Good for planting near windows to enjoy the fragrance.
https://www.vibrantearth.nz/catalogue/plantsdetail.php?pid=957&name=
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Port Wine Magnolia produces small dark maroon purple cupped flowers in spring. Set amongst glossy green leaves, these beautifully scented flowers are not as showy as other Magnolias but have the most amazing bubble gum fragrance.
An evergreen dense shrub suitable for hedging or screening, Port Wine Magnolia flowers on old wood making it suitable for a clipped or formal hedge. Prefers a full sun to part shade position and is frost and drought tolerant once established. May be pruned after flowering to encourage new growth.
Source: https://www.gardenexpress.com.au/product/port-wine-magnolia/
@ctrl-alt-nwo,
I think I have seen very similar type plant in my country! Sometimes that might be the same plant! Unfortunately I am not good in this category, so it's hard to tell it's exactly the same one! But thickness of the leaves, I think they are more thicker than normal plant leaves! Nice photography and description as usual!
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I like Magnolia flowers.
Michelia figo is a plant that is able to immediately attract your eyes.
Excellent photos, @ctrl-alt-nwo
Listen to the song about magnolias from my youth, performed by VIA "Ariel".
Port Wine Magnolia is an attractive, evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves. It produces highly perfumed flowers in spring and summer that aren’t showy but smell fantastic, almost like bubblegum.
Growing to approximately three metres high, it will make a great hedge or individual specimen for any garden where the fragrance can be appreciated.
It will perform in full sun to part shade and prefers a moist, fertile soil. It needs summer water and mulch to keep the roots cool.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/330mm-port-wine-magnolia-michelia-figo_p3820340
Beautiful plant, my friend and a cousin of the lovely deciduous Magnolia genus, once classified as a Magnolia* itself and indeed known as the port wine magnolia, this evergreen shrub from China grows well in the Sydney climate and a good alternative to Magnolia in warmer areas where those plants don't do as well. Magnolia figo is a useful background specimen, with lushly green foliage and creamy, purple-flushed flowers in late spring/early summer. The tulip-shaped flowers are not showy like those of its more flamboyant Magnolia relatives, but they are strongly scented, with a fragrance described variously as resembling banana, port wine or bubblegum!
The rounded shrub grows 3-4 m tall, with a width of 1.5-3.5 m, but is said to be slow-growing. It can be pruned to shape after flowering to reduce its size. It will grow in sun or partial shade, and enjoys humus-rich, well-drained soil and sufficient water in summer. It doesn't like harsh frost. It can be used as a hedge or screen plant. Propagation is by semi-hardwood cuttings taken in summer and autumn.
There are several cultivars of the plant that have larger flowers and that apparently grow faster than the species, including 'Lady of the Night' (ht 4 m) and 'Coco' (ht 4 m). Michelia figo has also been hybridised with Michelia doltsopa (which is a rather large tree) to produce Michelia x foggii cultivars that are small trees with fragrant flowers in late winter or spring.
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http://www.igarden.com.au/plant-type.jsp?t=Michelia&q=Plant
Often I heard that Magnolia has a wonderful aroma. What I found on the Internet about this wonderful plant. Evergreen slow-growing shrub or small tree, no more than 3-5 meters high. The leaves are alternate, up to 12 cm long and up to 5 cm wide, obovate or elliptical, entire, with a wedge-shaped base, leathery, dark green, lighter on the underside, Young branches and brown buds. Large, solitary, axillary flowers (up to 4 cm in diameter), each have 6 creamy yellow or pale purple wax petals with an elegant dark red border around the edge. Flowers exude an intense aroma of banana. Mass flowering occurs in spring, but individual flowers appear on the plant during the entire warm period, and when grown in indoor conditions - year-round. Fragrant flowers are widely used in perfumery and cosmetology.
http://edenland.com.ua/semena/mikheliya-figo.html
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