Magnolia figo(Lour.) DC.

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WFO wfo-0000233130 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Magnolia figo, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-09-03 / obs. 52125045
Magnolia figo, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 52125065
Magnolia figo, photographed by portioid
fig. c portioid, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27254245
Magnolia figo, photographed by portioid
fig. d portioid, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27254219
Magnolia figo, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. e Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185902519
Magnolia figo, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. f Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184436744
Magnolia figo, photographed by Mark Richman
fig. g Mark Richman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184438028
Magnolia figo, photographed by R. Peterika
fig. h R. Peterika, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172400621

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3414044
Filed as
Magnolia figo (Lour.) DC.
Det. by
Strong, Mark T., (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
J. F. Rock
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Magnolia figo is native: China Southeast China Southeast
Native distribution of Magnolia figo, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 150 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.1 °C 10.9 °C 13.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.1 °C 30.3 °C 32.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,145 mm 1,847 mm 2,497 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 85 mm 125 mm 341 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 150 research-grade observations of Magnolia figo that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Liriodendron figo Lour.
  • Liriopsis fuscata (Andrews) Spach
  • Magnolia annonifolia Salisb.
  • Magnolia caudata (M.X.Wu, X.H.Wu & G.Y.Li) C.B.Callaghan & Png
  • Magnolia fasciata Vent.
  • Magnolia fuscata Andrews
  • Magnolia fuscata var. annonifolia (Salisb.) DC.
  • Magnolia fuscata var. hebeclada DC.
  • Magnolia fuscata var. parviflora (Blume) Steud.
  • Magnolia heliophyla P.Parm.
  • Magnolia meleagrioides DC.
  • Magnolia parviflora Blume
  • Magnolia parvifolia DC.
  • Magnolia versicolor Salisb.
  • Michelia amoenna Q.F.Zheng & M.M.Lin
  • Michelia brevipes Y.K.Li & X.M.Wang
  • Michelia caudata M.X.Wu, X.H.Wu & G.Y.Li
  • Michelia crassipes Y.W.Law
  • Michelia fascicata (Andrews) Vent.
  • Michelia figo (Lour.) Spreng.
  • Michelia figo var. crassipes (Y.W.Law) B.L.Chen & Noot.
  • Michelia fuscata (Andrews) Blume
  • Michelia linyaoensis D.C.Zhang & S.B.Zhou
  • Michelia parviflora Deless.

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.