![]() ![]() Iridescent summer foliage turns green while maintaining purple undertones. Deep purple-red spring foliage has prominent black veins. Notably holding its bright cherry-red foliage color longer than other Lace leaf varieties. × soulangeana, the other parent being the Yulan magnolia, M. Magnificent ruffled foliage on a densely branched, upright tree with a spreading canopy adds a thrilling element to the landscape. Red Dragon Japanese Maple Tree with Intricate Lacy Purple Leaves. This species is one of the parents of the popular hybrid saucer magnolia, M. It prefers an acid or neutral soil, in full sun or light shade. The cultivar 'Nigra', with flowers much deeper in colour than the species, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It is a deciduous shrub, exceptionally a small tree, to 4m tall (smaller than most other magnolias), and blooms profusely in early spring with large pink to purple showy flowers, before the leaf buds open. In most areas, it prefers partial shade, but in cool-summer areas it can take full sun. It is now also planted as an ornamental in North America and Europe, though rather less often than its popular hybrid (see below). The hardiest Japanese Maple we have seen, it features finely cut red-purple foliage throughout the spring and summer months. Variously known by many names, including Mulan magnolia, purple magnolia, red magnolia, lily magnolia, tulip magnolia and woody-orchid, it was first introduced to English-speaking countries from cultivated Japanese origins, and is thus also sometimes called Japanese magnolia, though it is not native to Japan. Magnolia liliiflora is a small tree native to southwest China (in Sichuan and Yunnan), but cultivated for centuries elsewhere in China and also Japan. Magnolia polytepala Y.W.Law, R.Z.Zhou & R.J.Zhang. ![]()
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