Slow-growing Japanese magnolia with masses of starry many-petalled fragrant white flowers on bare branches in earliest spring, before the leaves. The compact magnolia for small gardens.
Hardiness ratings
| System | Rating | Temperature range | How to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| USDA hardiness zone | Zone 4–8 | −34.4 °C to −6.7 °C | Plant tolerates down to this zone |
| RHS hardiness rating | H6 | −20 °C to −15 °C | Plant needs at least this level of cold tolerance |
| Canadian plant hardiness zone | Zone 5–8 | −23 °C to −1 °C | Plant tolerates down to this zone |
| Australian (ANBG) zone | Zone 2–5 | −10 °C to 10 °C | Plant tolerates down to this zone |
Growing notes
- Plant as a specimen for small gardens — eventually 3–4 m tall, the most reliably compact magnolia in cultivation
- Flowers very early in spring — sometimes caught by late frosts, but reliably striking when they escape
- Distinct from the deciduous magnolia already in the database (Magnolia × soulangeana, the larger goblet-flowered tree magnolia) — M. stellata is shrubbier and star-flowered
- Lightly almond-fragrant in flower
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