Most produce large, cup-shaped white, pink, or lavender flowers in late winter or spring, with Asian magnolias generally flowering before their glossy foliage appears and North American varieties ...

A question for Dan Gill: The leaves of my Japanese magnolia look terrible. It looks like a disease or insects or both have damaged the foliage. There are spots and brown areas, and some leaves ...

The pollinator happens to be beetles. The blooms have a fragrance, although subtle. Asian magnolia cultivars were introduced here in America 1780. They were multi-stemmed but upright and massive.