Zahlreiche Äste mit Magnolienblüten von unten vor bewölktem Himmel fotografiert.
Tulpenmagnolie (Magnolia x soulangeana) 🤩 die Blüten sind übrigens essbar - wusstet ihr das? schmecken floral und leicht scharf, bisschen wie sehr milder Ingwer 😋
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Photo of a magnolia flower. Four lines show how the flower can be divided into two equal halves, four different ways. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
This Magnolia stellata 'Scented Silver' has an actinomorphic or radially symmetrical flower. You can find many ways to divide the flower into two equal halves. #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Vandaag 21 december, start van de winter.
Daarom even een flashback naar de lente. Magnolia in onze achtertuin.
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Photo of leafless branches bearing large, pale yellow, goblet-shaped magnolia flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Magnolias are much used as ornamental, flowering trees. I like the deciduous, yellow-flowered cultivars very much, even though their flowering period is brief. This is ‘Butterflies’, a cultivar of an interspecific cross. #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafless branch bearing a single fruit of the tulip tree. The individual carpels have matured into woody, winged samaras. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
While Magnolia relies on biotic seed dispersal, Liriodendron relies on the wind. Each carpel becomes a woody, winged fruit (except for the lowermost carpels, which form a basket to hold their winged sisters). This is L. tulipifera. #dispersal #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of tree branches bearing magnolia fruits. The fruit (an aggregation of follicles) is pendulous and bright red. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Magnolia sieboldii has red, pendulous fruits, as shown in this cultivated plant. Does the fruit, rather than the seeds, attract the dispersers? Do the follicles open at maturity? Do the seeds have a contrasting color? I have so many questions. 🤷♂️ #dispersal #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy shoot bearing a magnolia fruit, which is a long axis bearing individual follicles, which open on the dorsal side to reveal seeds that have a red, fleshy seed coat. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Magnolia grandiflora fruits are aggregates of follicles (that nobody calls a “follicetum”). The follicles open to reveal brightly colored seeds. The fleshy seed coat (that everyone calls a “sarcotesta”) is attractive to seed dispersers (birds & perhaps mammals). #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy shoot with a single, large, wide-open magnolia flower. The tepals are white with pointed apices. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Not all magnolias smell great: M. tripetala has a vile odor. The most plentiful compounds in its fragrance profile are benzyl alcohol & acetophenone, both of which have a pleasant odor, but there’s something among its minor aromachemicals that stinks! #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy shoot bearing a few magnolia flowers that are small (for magnolias) and have narrow, pale orange tepals. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Photo of a leafy shoot with a single, small, wide-open magnolia flower. The tepals are pale orange, with reddish blush at the base. The carpels are bright green. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Magnolia chapaca (📷1) has a lush fragrance used in perfumery. On the other hand, M. figo (📷2) smells strongly of bananas. The fragrance doesn’t include isoamyl acetate (“banana oil”); instead, it’s mostly isobutyl acetate with a bit of ethyl hexanoate. #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a leafy shoot held by a hand. The shoot bears a single large magnolia flower that is only partially open. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Pollination in Magnolia is often by beetles, but other insects may contribute. Magnolia ovata is a night-blooming, thermogenic & beetle-pollinated species. The 1st night, the stigmas are receptive. Flowers close in the day & open the 2nd night in the staminate phase. #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a bust of Pierre Magnol. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Photo of a leafless branch bearing many large, white magnolia flowers. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Photo of two cut flowers from Liriodendron. They are large, with tepals that are green with a splash of orange at the base. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Let’s take a look at Magnoliaceae. Named for Pierre Magnol, who gave us the modern concept of plant families. There are now just 2 genera, distributed in Asia & the Americas: Magnolia s.l. (📷2: M. cylindrica) & Liriodendron (📷3: L. tulipifera). #Magnoliaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the ripe fruit of the magnolia, backed by the foliage. The fruit is an aggregation of follicles that open to reveal seeds with red, fleshy seed coats. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
Many plants reward animal seed-dispersers with fleshy fruits, but some have a fleshy seed coat, the sarcotesta, that does the same thing: entice & reward dispersers. A familiar example is Magnolia virginiana with bright red, fleshy seeds. #Magnoliaceae #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Beautiful & creamy white cup-shaped magnolia blossom just opening this morning on Broad Street in Philadelphia north of City Hall. Such a heavenly scent! 🐇🍄🌿
#Flowers #BloomSky #Magnolia #Magnoliaceae #Gardening #Philadelphia #Philly #NorthBroad #WforWhite #Photography #fragrant
Photo of the flower surrounded by glossy leaves. The large white flower has an elongated receptacle from which the stamens have fallen. The end of the receptacle is covered by many spirally arranged carples, each with a curled stigma. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.
Having free carpels (#apocarpy) is believed to be the ancestral condition in Angiosperms. We see it today in lots of early-divergent lineages. Magnolia grandiflora has many free carpels spirally arranged on a long receptacle. Each carpel has a curly stigma. #Magnoliaceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
