Magnolia figo 'Port Wine' David Geiger which leaves Cyrilla racemiflora as

which leaves Cyrilla racemiflora as a plant of the southeastern United States after all

The epithet populifolia simply means poplar-leaved

clear pink that holds up in the southern spring

evergreen character

Magnolia figo 'Port Wine' David Geiger which leaves Cyrilla racemiflora asMagnolia figo, the banana shrub, is one of those old Southern garden treasures that scent a whole spring evening, and 'Port Wine' is a fine, deep colored form. Long grown under the name Michelia figo and only lately folded into the genus Magnolia, the plant makes a large, dense, lustrous evergreen shrub or small tree, handsome in leaf all year but grown, above all, for the perfume. The flowers give the shrub its common name. Small, cupped, and creamy