Magnolia trees are as fascinating as they are beautiful . This popular tree is a primitive flowering plant which somehow exist in America and Asia as Ice Age glacier wiped out ancient forests in Europe . Of the 80 species of magnolias you could discover ones which thrive in the tropics as well as mintage which can brave the Midwestern United States and Canada , ones which are deciduous or ones which are evergreen , and ones which bloom in white-hot , yellow , unripe , garden pink or purple . Magnolias are comparatively pest free ; however , there are a few different species which enjoy eating the flowers of the magnolia tree .
Insects
Due to their prehistorical design , magnolia tree do not have ambrosia and do not apply bees and butterflies for pollenation . Instead magnolia tree attract mallet from the Nitidulidae fellowship with the flowers ' fragrance and its sugary secretion . These beetles feed off of the magnolia flowers and cross-pollinate the trees as they do so . weevil , a case of mallet , will eat the flower petal of a magnolia blossom , leaving snick around the edges of the petal as they do so . The larvae of winter moth will also rust magnolia blossoms .
Wildlife
Wildlife is attracted to the thick , fragrant petals of the magnolia tree . Deer will eat the blossoms on your magnolia . If your magnolia is civilize as a bush , rabbit that can reach out to the flowers will eat up them . Squirrels commonly eat up the germ of the magnolia and will also corrode the peak .
People
The flowers of the magnolia tree are also eaten by humans . Traditionally , the flowers have been used by the Chinese as a cure for sinus ailments , but they are also eat just for the taste and texture .
Magnolia Trees Lose Their Leaves?
are widely look up to as flowering shade trees . Some magnolia species are deciduous and fall behind their leaves . Others are evergreen and do not . There about 120 species of magnolia worldwide , with eight in North America , of which six are deciduous . It grows from 30 to 40 feet improbable yield 8- to 10 - inch - broad white heyday that have rose - purple bases . Perhaps the most well do it magnolia , the southern magnolia ( Magnolia grandifolia ) , famous for its large , showy white blossom , grows from 60 to 80 feet grandiloquent with a gap of 30 to 50 feet . southerly magnolia will mature in USDA zone 7 through 9 . Its leaves turn gold when they shed in autumn . It is grown as a shrub or as a tree from 15 to 20 invertebrate foot grandiloquent in cold parts of its range and up to 60 substructure tall in the southern , tender parts .
