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Magnolia liliifera (L.) Baill.

Egg magnolia

Magnoliaceae · Hainan, Assam +15

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Habitat figuresfrom few records
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
18.2°C
Record low 15.9 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr and May at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
3,254mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
29–40DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

From few records: 3 records in 3 grid cells. The records.

Summary

Magnolia liliifera, commonly known as egg magnolia, is a flowering tree native to the Indomalayan realm. It bears white to cream-colored flowers on terminal stems. The leaves are elliptical and get as large as 25 cm (10 in) long and 8 cm (3 in) wide. The tree ranges in height from 3.5 to 18.5 m (12 to 60 ft) in situ.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Magnolia liliifera", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 to 340 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. The natural range of Magnolia species is disjunct, with a main center in east, south and southeast Asia and a secondary center in South America, Central America, the West Indies, and some species in eastern North America.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Magnolia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,523 mm of 3,254 mm) takes 8 months, January and May to November. Mean temperature moves 2.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

3,254 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,523 mm of it January and May to November. Wettest month June at 384 mm, driest month March at 145 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,947 mm to 3,614 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 3,254 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 3,254 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 29 to 40 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 28, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 18.2 °C, the absolute minimum 15.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 31.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 20.6 °C in August (across the grid cells of the range 19.1 °C to 22.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 28.0 °C in March and April (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 18.2 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 64 to 73% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -154 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

From few records: this habitat climate is read from 3 records in 3 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Magnolia liliifera through the yearWarmest months January, February, March, April and May, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month August, mean nightly low 20.6 °C; 3,254 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.10°15°20°25°30°35°31.2° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER15.9° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500600mm rainDLI 29–40RH 64–73%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 3 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C28 / 24–2928 / 25–3128 / 25–3228 / 26–3128 / 26–2927 / 25–2826 / 24–2825 / 25–2826 / 25–2827 / 25–2827 / 25–2827 / 24–28
Night °C21 / 19–2221 / 19–2222 / 19–2222 / 19–2322 / 20–2322 / 20–2321 / 19–2321 / 19–2321 / 19–2322 / 19–2222 / 19–2221 / 19–22
Rain mm278 / 69–368197 / 54–286145 / 79–300161 / 151–259257 / 208–424384 / 204–510367 / 164–513301 / 120–564350 / 161–537308 / 231–408278 / 213–328228 / 92–317
DLI30 / 29–3434 / 31–3838 / 33–4040 / 33–4134 / 31–3632 / 29–3231 / 28–3231 / 29–3231 / 30–3231 / 30–3229 / 28–3130 / 29–31
RH %69 / 65–7168 / 63–7066 / 62–6964 / 64–6970 / 68–7070 / 70–7271 / 71–7271 / 69–7372 / 71–7473 / 72–7472 / 70–7370 / 68–72
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 3 grid cells holding the 3 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1951:5765 (-7.575, 108.275). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 15.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 18.2 °C, 99th-percentile day 31.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 3 distinct grid cells holding 3 of the 3 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1951:5765 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -7.50_108.125, lapse-corrected -154 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 252 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeHainan, Assam, East Himalaya, Andaman Is., Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, New Guinea · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker5.886, 116.733 · in the densest population, 53 records (18% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 301 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 3 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 292 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the climate. 298 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 301 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: User:KaffirLemon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Begonia semiovata Begonia semiovata Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY, Aaron ListonCarludovica palmata Carludovica palmata Panama hat plant Photo: CC BY, Noland MartinAlibertia patinoi Alibertia patinoi Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold SøndergaardAnthurium obtusum Anthurium obtusum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, YuPentagonia macrophylla Pentagonia macrophylla Rubiaceae Photo: CC BY, AitorPassiflora vitifolia Passiflora vitifolia Perfumed passionflower Photo: CC BY, Luis G Restrepo

Other Magnolia 103 in the reference

Magnolia acuminata Magnolia acuminata Cucumber-tree Photo: CC BY, Evan M. Raskin Magnolia albosericea Magnoliaceae Magnolia amoena Magnolia amoena Tianmu magnolia Photo: CC BY-SA, William (Ned) Friedman Magnolia annamensis Magnoliaceae Magnolia ashei Magnolia ashei Ashe's magnolia Photo: CC BY, mfeaver Magnolia baillonii Magnoliaceae Magnolia balansae Magnoliaceae Magnolia biondii Magnolia biondii Magnoliaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotMagnolia campbellii Magnolia campbellii Campbell's Magnolia Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartMagnolia caricifragrans Magnolia caricifragrans Magnoliaceae Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeMagnolia cavaleriei Magnolia cavaleriei Magnoliaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotMagnolia champaca Magnolia champaca Champak Photo: CC BY, Karthik Thrikkadeeri all 104 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Aromadendron oreadum; Blumia candollei; Lirianthe liliifera; Lirianthe poilanei; Lirianthe pulgarensis and 57 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Magnoliaceae
Described by
(L.) Baill.
Native to
Hainan, Assam, East Himalaya +14
Wild records
301 in range · 292 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 16 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (13 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 3 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -7.50_108.125, lapse-corrected -154 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 19 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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