Hybrid between the cultivar M. campbelli var. mollicomata ‘Lanarth’ and M. liliiflora. Reaches 30-60 feet in cultivation. Bark is grayish tan, twigs are smooth and tan colored, sometimes can become almost black. The terminal buds are covered with yellow hairs. […]

Small, open, spreading deciduous tree broadest above the middle with mid-green leaves to 5 inches long. It produces goblet-shaped white flowers 5 inches across with 9 to 12 petals, faintly streaked pink on the outside.

Spreading deciduous shrub broadest above the middle with mid-green leaves 8 inches long. In late spring, it produces large, goblet-shaped, creamy white with purple-pink based flowers that are 5 inches across, each with nine petals.

Openly branching shrub or tree with a rather coarse texture. Should be grown in a large garden. Bark is smooth and gray-brown, with yellowish twigs. The terminal buds have a covering of fine white hairs. Large leaves 4-18 inches long […]

Vigorous, rounded deciduous shrub with egg-shaped mid-green leaves to 6 inches long. In midspring it bears large cup-shaped flowers to 8 inches across up to 19 petals in a purple-red outside and white inside.

Evergreen tree reaching 60 feet in height, with a 3 foot trunk diameter. Bark is light gray, with slender branchlets. Leaves are glossy green, leathery above, pale green below. Flowers are reported as creamy yellow and fragrant, but has not […]

This flowering shrub matures to a height of about 30 feet tall with a width that is slightly less, yeilding an overall, rounded form. Fragrant flowers open anywhere from March to April and are reportedly some of the prettiest of […]

This flowering shrub matures to a height of about 30 feet tall with a width that is slightly less, yeilding an overall, rounded form. Fragrant flowers open anywhere from March to April and are reportedly some of the prettiest of […]

Cross between M.liliiflora and M.kobus var. stellata. A compact growth habit and red-purple flowers, inside and out, 5 inches wide. Later flowering than typical, producing a good spring display. Bloom sporadically in the summer. An erect deciduous shrub reaching 7-15 […]

Deciduous, compact shrub with dark green foliage and dark purple-red flowers. Grows 8 to 12 feet. Foliage tends to look shabby by midsummer, turning blotchy and brown. A parent of many more popular hybrids and clutivars.