Large shrub to 6 m or so tall. Leaves obovate, blunt-tipped, about 8-14 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, tapered at base. Flowers before leaves, profuse, with mostly 12 petal-like spoon-shaped segments, white; early spring. Raised by m. Loebner, Dresden, e. Germany pre-1920. [m. kobus var. loebneri (Kache) Spongberg]
Garden origin
Source: (1997). Magnoliaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Magnolia ×loebneri 'Leonard Messel'
Flowers with about 12 oblanceolate petal-like segments mostly 6-7 cm long, exterior pink, interior white, eventually spreading. Long flowering. Raised England by l. Messel of Nymans pre-1950.
Compact with semi-double flowers. Dr Karl Sax, Arnold Arboretum, 1939. Named after Dr e.d. Merrill, former Director of the Arnold Arboretum.
Magnolia ×loebneri 'Neil Mceachern'
Quick growing tree. Flowers pink flushed. Plants arising from seed of m. stellata 'Rosea' from garden of Capt. Neil McEachern, Lake Como, Italy, 1952.
