• 8"x 12" image size (10"x14" paper size) / 200 prints / 14"x 18" matting size
• available in Card sets, as a Matted Card/Calendar scene or as an ART-ament

The evergreen, or southern, magnolia is planted in areas with warm climates, but native to only a narrow coastal strip in the southeastern United States. Of some 80 other species (6 native to North America) most of the cultivated species and their many hybrid varieties are deciduous and lose their leaves in the fall. Showy flowers are produced each spring before new leaves appear. The large blossoms of the magnolia tree range in color from white to yellow, pink and purple. Certain varieties produce the largest blossoms of any cultivated tree, with flowers reaching as much as 14 inches in diameter.

With just a few exceptions, the showy flowers with the flower parts (sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels) are unfused and arranged in spirals on an axis. The stamens (male flower parts) are broad and leaflike, and the carpels (female flower parts) may also exhibit their origin as modified leaves. In addition to these features, the abundant aromatic oils, wood with simple water-conducting cells, and seeds with small embryos indicate the antiquity of the order. Many members of the order are pollinated by beetles, indicating the order's closeness to the ancestral line of flowering plants.