Deciduous shrub or small tree. Slender shoots and buds with pale brown felty hairs. Leaves oblong to lanceolate mostly 7-11 cm long, pointed, base mostly round, often with velvety yellowish brown hair below. Leaf stalk 1.5-4 cm long with a long stipular scar. Flowers appearing after the leaves, saucer-shaped, becoming pendent, about 10 cm wide, nodding, perianth segments mostly 9, pure white, obovate; stamen filaments carmine, anthers red; early summer. [Magnolia ×highdownensis Dandy]
W China
Twigs tinged reddish purple; flowers cup-shaped, nodding, segments mostly 9, all white; shoots and lower leaf surface with felt of yellow and clear hairs; cf. M. sieboldii.
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.
