Slow growing shrub 2-3 m tall. Shoots densely hairy at first. Leaves obovate 5-10 cm long, tip blunt, base wedge-shaped, margins usually wavy. Flowers appearing mostly before the leaves white, fragrant; petals mostly 12-30, narrow and straplike; late winter. [m. kobus dc. var stellata (Siebold & Zucc.) Blackburn]
Japan
Starry flowers with up to 35 strap-like petals.
Specimens: ACT: Yarralumla Nursery VIC: Melbourne (Fitzroy Gardens, from Conservatory to Captain Cook's Cottage).
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.
Small shrub. Pink in bud. Flowers with 20-25 perianth segments that are almost white inside.
Pink form at first, becoming white. American raised by Vermeulin Nursery, New Jersey.
Magnolia stellata 'Royal Star'
Fast-growing, robust. Flowers large, pink in bud, but 25-30 segments white. A seedling from 'Waterlily' probably originating from Vermeulen Nursery, Long Island, New York in 1947.
Habit more erect than species and with larger flowers. Segments flushed pink along inside midrib, highly scented. Profusely flowering, flowers with general appearance of a Nymphaea water lily. Origin uncertain, probably c. 1940, usa. There may be several clones under this name which is sometimes written as 'Water Lily'.
