Magnolia Cultivars E

'Early Rose'

Flowers precocious, rose pink, to 20 cm across. Typically a large, multistemmed shrub (Piet Vergeldt Boomkwekerij 2021). A less vigorous, smaller flowered sister to the celebrated ‘Star Wars’, raised by Os Blumhardt, New Zealand, in the 1970s.

Magnolia 'Early Rose', sister to the better known 'Star Wars' (22nd April 2006). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

Magnolia 'Early Rose' (14th April 2009). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

'Edith Bogue'

See Magnolia grandiflora ‘Edith Bogue’.

'Eileen Baines'

Flowers with the leaves (May in Scotland) to 15 cm across, nodding, white, very fragrant; a semi-double with extra whorls of white tepals; stamens reddish. The original plant regularly produces a second, smaller flush of flowers in late summer (R. Baines pers. comm.). A chance seedling of M. wilsonii which first flowered in 2007, it was selected by Richard Baines, curator of Logan Botanic Garden in SW Scotland, in his own garden and named for his mother; registered 2015 (Slack 2021; R. Baines pers. comm.).

The flowers of Magnolia 'Eileen Baines' are semi-double, with an extra whorl of tepals. Millbarn, Scotland, 26th May 2018. Image Richard Baines.

Magnolia 'Eileen Baines' flowering in Millbarn garden, SW Scotland. 26th May 2018. Image Richard Baines.

The original plant of Magnolia 'Eileen Baines' in Millbarn garden, SW Scotland. 26th May 2018. Image Richard Baines.

'Elegance'

Flowers precocious, March–April in S England, intermediate between those of its parents, with many pure pink tepals. A medium to latge shrub raised by Phil Savage, MI, before 2000.

'Elisa Odenwald'

Flowers precocious but late, large, cup-shaped; tepals creamy white outside with a hint of purple-pink at the base of the inner 3, pure white inside. Upright, multi-stemmed small to medium tree selected from Gresham hybrids by Ken Durio before 1984 (Fogg & Del Tredici 1984).

Magnolia 'Elisa Odenwald' (30th March 2012). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

Magnolia 'Elisa Odenwald' (Parco Botanico Eisenhut Gambarogno, Switzerland, 30th March 2012). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

'Elisabeth Holman'

Flowers precocious, about 20 cm across; tepals 11, strong reddish purple. Perhaps a hybrid with M. sargentiana, it was given to Treve Holman of Chyverton, Cornwall by Michael Williams of Lanarth, 1954. A medium tree selected by Nigel Holman before 1988, who considered it as good as or better than ‘Lanarth’; in collections on both sides of the Atlantic, it has had little commercial distribution.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth Holman', a vividly coloured but uncommon hybrid (25th February 2022). Image Caerhays Estate.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth Holman' (25th February 2022). Image Caerhays Estate.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth Holman' (25th February 2022). Image Caerhays Estate.

'Elizabeth'

Flowers just before or with the new leaves, the show persisting 4 weeks or more; tepals 6–9, creamy yellow, more intensely coloured in areas with high light levels; stamens red. An upright, small to medium tree. A sterile pentaploid (2n=95) from a cross made in 1956 by Evamaria Sperber at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, in parallel with the M. × brooklynensis crosses. The first yellow flowered hybrid to be released, named 1977 in honour of Elizabeth Van Brunt, New York herb enthusiast and supporter of the garden (Koerting 2000); subject to an early plant patent (USPP 391). Still starred by Philippe de Spoelberch as worthwhile from his Belgian perspective (pers. comm. 2021).

Magnolia 'Elizabeth' flowering in a private garden in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, UK, late April 2020. Image Tom Christian.

This Magnolia 'Elizabeth' grows in a private garden in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, UK. Visible from the street, and improving year-on-year, it promises to become something of a local landmark! Photographed late April 2020. Image Tom Christian.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth' just starting to flower at RHS Garden Wisley, March 2012. Image John Grimshaw.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth': not the yellowest flowers, but a tried-and-tested tree (8th April 2017). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

A superb Magnolia 'Elizabeth' flowering at the Morris Arboretum, PA. Image Paul Meyer.

Magnolia 'Elizabeth' flowers fading to a pleasing lemony yellow at the Morris Arboretum, PA. Image Paul Meyer.

Standard Magnolia 'Elizabeth' growing over clipped Buxus sempervirens in an effective design in a quadrangle at Worcester College, Oxford (April 2024). Image Simon Bagnall.

'Ellen'

See Magnolia acuminata ‘Ellen’.

'Emma Cook'

Flowers precocious (late March to early April, S England), scented, opening out to 15 cm across; tepals 9–11, pale lavender-pink outside, pinkish white inside. A medium to large, twiggy shrub or small tree. Selected by Frank Galyon, TN, before 2000. ‘Pristine’ has similar parentage, but with M. denudata as the pollen parent.

Autumn foliage of Magnolia 'Emma Cook' (28th October 2003). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

'Emory'

See Magnolia grandiflora ‘Emory’.

'Encore'

See Magnolia × loebneri ‘Encore’.

'Eric Savill'

See Magnolia sprengeri ‘Eric Savill’.

'Eskimo'

Flowers precocious, 12–15 cm across, cup-shaped, white with a hint of lilac; they are notably frost resistant, having withstood –6°C. Selected by August Kehr, NC, in 1990, introduced 1999.

Magnolia 'Eskimo' (19th April 2010). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

Magnolia 'Eskimo' (9th April 2017). Image Philippe de Spoelberch.

'Eternal Spring'

Evergreen michelia hybrid. Flowers in spring to 8 cm across with 10 white tepals, fragrant. A shrub or small tree to 6 m tall, selected before 2012 by Clifford Parks, Camellia Forest Nursery, NC (Heerdegen & Eisenhut 2020).

Magnolia 'Eternal Spring' (24th March 2018). Image The Morton Arboretum.

'Ethel Hillier'

See under Magnolia campbellii Alba Group.

'Étienne Soulange-Bodin'

See Magnolia × soulangeana ‘Étienne Soulange-Bodin’.

'Evamaria'

See Magnolia × brooklynensis ‘Evamaria’.

'Exmouth'

See Magnolia grandiflora ‘Exmouth’.

'Exotic Star'

Evergreen; flowers through summer, fragrant, to 10 cm across, white with a prominent boss of orange-red stamens; leaves glossy with rufous indumentum beneath. An upright small tree flowering from an early age, apart from the striking stamens generally resembling M. grandiflora. Raised by Dennis Ledvina, WI, before 2008 (Jonsson 2008).