Magnolia acumina seeds

Magnolia acuminate / Magnolia acuminata - is a large deciduous tree, up to 30 meters tall, with a slender pyramidal crown in youth, rounded in old age. Young shoots are at first pubescent, later glabrous, reddish-brown. Elliptical or oval leaves up to 24 centimeters long, glabrous on top, dark green, grayish-green on the underside, briefly pubescent. The flowers are bell-shaped, up to 8 centimeters in diameter, yellowish-green, often with a bluish bloom, and odorless. Blooms after the leaves bloom. The fruits are crimson-red, the seeds are covered with a fleshy orange-red shell.

Flowering (begins in the 9th year after sowing) is not particularly impressive, but this species is of great interest as a rootstock for heat-loving magnolias and for breeding work.

Grows quickly. Demanding on soil moisture and fertility. The most frost-resistant representative of the genus.

Сommonly called the cucumber tree (often spelled as a single word «cucumbertree»), cucumber magnolia or blue magnolia.