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Show larger version of the image Magnolia ‘Evamaria’ Magnolia × brooklynensis ‘Evamaria’ is coming soon to BBG. In that sense, the spirit of BBG’s breeding program will live on. Since the introduction of ‘Evamaria’, ‘Elizabeth’, and the other Brooklyn yellows, subsequent hybrids from breeders all over the world continue to build upon the work of Sperber, Stone, and Koerting. Of course, the BBG program’s influence on the world of magnolia breeding ranges far beyond the Garden itself. Popular for its deep purple flower with white interior, Black Beauty is also extremely hardy, to USDA Zone 4. Magnolia × brooklynensis “#204” showed up in the spring 2001 catalog of Fairweather Gardens Nursery, in New Jersey, as ‘Black Beauty’, and the name, unofficial though it is, has stuck. The last hybrid of note is one that is as yet unregistered and only unofficially named by the industry. Location at BBG: Magnolia Plaza, near Administration building at the top of the steps to Lily Pool Terrace The hybrid’s name honors Elizabeth Van Brunt, a friend and benefactor of the Garden and from whom the Garden received the Kitchawan site for its research facility.īlack Beauty Magnolia ( Magnolia × brooklynensis “#204”) Flowers bloom about a week after the saucer magnolias and two or three weeks after the star magnolias. Its later bloom time, inherited from the cucumber tree, helps it avoid damage from frost and cold snaps its precocious habit is from the yulan.
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The color of its creamy-yellow flowers comes from the deep yellow flowers of the native cucumber tree and the ivory ones of the yulan magnolia ( M. ‘Elizabeth’ is the perfect balance between its parents. The term “precocious” refers to plants that flower before they leaf out-a quality that’s highly valued, especially in magnolias, because of the elegant display made by the flowers on bare branches. Sperber, was the first precocious yellow-flowering magnolia. Locations at BBG: Western edge of Magnolia Plaza, near Daffodil Hill Osborne Garden
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We currently have one specimen of ‘Evamaria’ in our nursery, and I’m hoping to plant it in later this year. Its hardiness results from using a North American parent-our native magnolias bloom much later than Asian ones.īreeding with this native parent was not known to have been done before and represented “a major paradigm shift in magnolia development,” according to the Magnolia Society International’s fall/winter 2011 journal. Its flowers are an unusual purplish color with varying tinges of orange, yellow, and green. ‘Evamaria’ was the first of the brooklynensis hybrids, which brought an increased hardiness and expanded color palette previously unseen in magnolias. Evamaria Sperber, who helped start BBG’s breeding program and whose influence on magnolia breeding cannot be overestimated. This small tree is considered the first successful cross ever achieved between an American species-the cucumber tree ( Magnolia acuminata)-and an Asian species-the mulan ( M.