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Large thick glossy leaves, dark green above with a rusty felted underside, and enormous fragrant cream flowers up to 250mm across through summer. Cone like seed pods split to reveal bright red seeds. Dwarf cultivars such as Little Gem stay much smaller.
Planted in established gardens across the North Shore, Eastern Suburbs, Hunters Hill and Strathfield, and increasingly used as a hedge or screen in the dwarf forms.
Slow growing and dense, so the timber is heavier than the size suggests. The species is not exempt in any council on this list, and mature specimens in older gardens are occasionally significant tree listed. Where the tree is being retained through building work, its shallow root plate makes a tree protection zone worth insisting on.
Status below is for a tree on private land that has passed the council’s size threshold. Heritage items, heritage conservation areas, significant tree registers, biodiversity mapping and conditions of development consent override every exemption shown here.
Dwarf cultivars such as Little Gem are grafted or selected forms. Seedling grown plants and mislabelled stock revert to the full species, which reaches 20m. It is a common problem with magnolias sold through general nurseries.
Yes, once it passes your council’s size threshold. It is not on any exempt species list in the councils covered here.
