National Botanic Garden of Wales, United Kingdom

Common name: magnolia 'George Henry Kern'

Family: Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)

Distribution: Gardd/Garden

Hardiness: (H6) Hardy-very cold winter. -20 to -15°C (USDA 6b/7a)

Life form: Deciduous shrub/sub-shrub • Llwyn collddail

Geirdarddiad / Etymology: Magnolia (mag-NO-lee-a): For Pierre Magnol (1638–1715), Professor of Botany and Director of Montpellier Botanic Garden.

Dyfarniadau / Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Description: Compact, deciduous shrub or small tree about 4m tall, with dark green leaves to 10cm long, and producing goblet-shaped flowers in early to mid-spring before the leaves, which are very pale pink, flushed with darker purple-pink on the outside.