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Magnolia × soulangeana; photograph Ilya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAIlya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Magnolia × soulangeana Soul.-Bod.

Chinese magnolia; Saucer magnolia; Tulip Magnolia

Magnoliaceae · China South-Central

A hybrid: M. denudata × M. liliiflora, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Magnolia × soulangeana (Magnolia denudata × Magnolia liliiflora), the saucer magnolia or sometimes the tulip tree, is a hybrid flowering plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae. It is a deciduous tree with large, early-blooming flowers in various shades of white, pink, and purple. It is one of the most commonly used magnolias in horticulture, being widely planted in the British Isles, especially in the south of England; and in the United States, especially the east and west coasts. The tree has since been planted across eastern and southeastern Australia, as well as parts of New Zealand.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Magnolia × soulangeana", 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

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central · introduced: New York, Alabama · 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).
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 866 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: Ilya, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); YvoBentele, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 Magnolia conspicua var. alexandrina; Magnolia conspicua var. citriodora; Magnolia conspicua var. soulangeana; Magnolia conspicua var. speciosa; Magnolia lene and 5 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Magnoliaceae
Described by
Soul.-Bod.
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
6 in range · 4 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; 169 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (130 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 18 at a herbarium, 21 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 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 90 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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