Description

Magnolia "Merril" is a hybrid cross variety between M. kobus and a pink form of M. stellata which grows to 9 metres tall by 8 metres wide. It is a medium size, deciduous shrub with blunt dark to paler-green leaves and produces large white many petalled flowers, faintly flushed pink before and after the leaves emerge in late winter/early spring. It is a variety that is frost resistant but drought tender and copes quite well in colder locations.