Magnolia cordata Woodlanders Introduction the sixteenth-century Sevillian physician who

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

all the beauty and aromatic foliage of the species

finger-like leaflets in a palmate fan

and hails from China

the little round

Magnolia cordata Woodlanders Introduction the sixteenth-century Sevillian physician whoMagnolia 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,