Details for: NA 83690, Magnolia virginiana L., Smith Coll. 393-14*G

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Magnolia virginiana L.

Top Name:

Smith Coll. 393-14*G

Origin:

Collected – Massachusetts, United States

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

Jul 2016

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Availability

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Magnolia virginiana L.

Top Name:

Smith Coll. 393-14*G

Origin:

Collected – Massachusetts, United States

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

Jul 2016

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Plant

Life Form:

Tree

Life Habit:

Tree

Source History

Collected

25 June 2013.
Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Locality: Gloucester, village of Magnolia: Ravenswood Park; north of trail that dissects the swamp.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Kettle hole swamp, red maple dominant. Muck soil.
Number of plants sampled: 1
Associated species: Acer rubrum
Land Owner Remarks: Trustees Of Reservations
Comment: Tree. Trustees' tree number 835. Probably the rarest tree in New England, this is the only known wild population. Population in severe decline due to nibbling and antler rubbing by deer. Deer fence erected and seems to be reversing this trend. Cuttings were harvested with the permission of the Trustees of Reservations and with collecting permit supplied by the State Botanist, Brian Connolly.
Collector(s):

Nicholson, Rob, Smith College Botanic Garden

Donated

July 2016.
Massachusetts, United States
Comment: One rooted cutting received.
Donor(s):

Botanic Garden of Smith College

Accession Names and Identifiers

Smith Coll. 393-14*G

Type: Institute identifier

Accession number and qualifier.

Botanic Garden of Smith College

Type: Collector identifier

Rob Nicholson (BG of Smith College) and summer interns: Christopher Copeland, Becky Szal, Kady Wilson, Emily DiPadova, Erika McCarthy, and Noemi Collazo.

NA 83690

Type: Site identifier

Group: NA

U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative

From cuttings rooted in 2014 at The Botanic Garden of Smith College. See their Fall 2013 newsletter (stored with electronic accession records) for details, or visit https://www.smith.edu/garden/Newsletter/newsfall13.pdf. Each [letter] qualifier [associated with Smith College accession number 393-14] signifies a distinct genotype from a single tree in the wild; these letter qualifiers are recorded at USNA as collection numbers by inference. -SBL

Magnolia virginiana L.

Genus:

Magnolia

Subgenus:

Magnolia

Section:

Magnolia

Family:

Magnoliaceae

Subfamily:

Magnolioideae

Nomen number:

23150

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:535. 1753

Protologue link:

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358554

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

07/26/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Autonym(s)
Magnolia virginiana L. var. virginiana

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Magnolia glauca (L.) L.
Magnolia virginiana L. var. australis Sarg.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	laurel magnolia	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541
English	swamp bay	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English	swamp-laurel	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English	sweet bay	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English	sweet magnolia	1	Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541
French	laurier doux	2	FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
Swedish	virginiamagnolia	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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