Stellar Ruby Magnolia

Magnolia x figo ‘Stellar Ruby’

Other Names: Stellar Ruby Hybrid Banana Shrub

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a–9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Small Tree

Height at Maturity: 10-15′

Width at Maturity: 6-8′

Spacing: 6′ for solid hedges; 12′ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Reddish Purple

Flower Size: 2-3″

Flowering Period: Late Spring through the season!

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: Yes, smells just like a banana popsicle!

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Sun or Part Shade. Foliage is darker in color with some shade or filtered sun in the afternoon

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist

Soil pH: 6.0 – 6.5 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat

Description

This is the single trunk tree for of the Stellar Ruby Magnolia, a new and exciting reblooming Banana Shrub hybrid cross of Magnolia and Michelia figo, It features abundant banana scented purplish red flowers and deep green lush, tropical looking foliage of the Stellar Ruby Magnolia are sure to please. The flowers rebloom throughout summer into early fall providing season long beauty and sensory appeal in the landscape. The dense glossy blue-green leaves cover the 10 to 15 feet tall tree. Ideal for use as a specimen in landscape borders and home foundation plantings.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing to about 15 feet tall and half as wide, the Stellar Ruby Magnolia is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or in a row in sunny to partially shaded landscape borders. It will grow in either sun or shade, assuming a looser more open form when grown in a mostly shade environment. It is also useful in home foundation plantings as an accent tree or to frame the corners or against an large, open wall. A fine addition to the fragrance or cottage garden. Make sure to plant this visual and sensory beauty where you can enjoy the fragrance of the flowers from up close!

Suggested Spacing: 12 feet or more apart for space between trees

Growing Preferences

The Stellar Ruby Magnolia prefers an acid, fertile, well drained soil with plenty of organic matter. It will grow well in either sun or shade, assuming a looser more open form when grown in a mostly shade environment. When growing in direct, full sun the leaves will be a lighter shade of green. Some filtered sun or dappled shade during the mid afternoon hours in summer produces deeper green leaves, which we think are more attractive.

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