Magnolia virginiana ludoviciana JC Raulston Arboretum Site the shrub where a

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The cross was probably first made by the late

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the Chinese swamp cypress

Magnolia virginiana ludoviciana JC Raulston Arboretum Site the shrub where aSweetbay is one of the loveliest and most useful of the native magnolias, and this is Sweetbay from the far western edge of the range, the big leaved, big flowered form of the Louisiana and east Texas country long known in gardens as Magnolia virginiana ludoviciana. Set against the typical species, these western Gulf plants carry noticeably larger leaves and flowers, with soft down on the undersides of the leaves and on the flower buds, and grow as