{"id":18731,"date":"2020-04-03T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18731"},"modified":"2020-04-08T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T23:30:29","slug":"magnolia-x-soulangeana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18731","title":{"rendered":"<em>Magnolia<\/em> \u00d7 <em>soulangeana<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18733\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18733\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Magnolia x soulangeana\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_20200403_174878.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Magnolia<\/em> \u00d7 <em>soulangeana<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of the saucer magnolias (<em>Magnolia<\/em> \u00d7 <em>soulangeana<\/em>) have finished their bloom but there are a few in the neighborhood that are still at their peak. This has been a good year for the magnolias, coming a little early and with no late frost to damage them. The saucer magnolia is a hybrid of <em>M. denudata<\/em> x <em>M. liliiflora<\/em>. The first of those, the yulan magnolia, has pure while flowers, which seems like it would be very nice, as well. The second, commonly called the lily magnolia, is a bit more hardy and provides the hybrid with its color. Many of the named varieties of saucer magnolia come from a breeding program at the U. S. National Arboretum. The hybrid epithet comes from Chevalier Etienne Soulange-Bodin (1774\u20131846), a &#x201c;disgruntled cavalry officer.&#x201d;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the saucer magnolias (Magnolia \u00d7 soulangeana) have finished their bloom but there are a few in the neighborhood that are still at their peak. This has been a good year for the magnolias, coming a little early and with no late frost to damage them. The saucer magnolia is a hybrid of M. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1637,556,1624,107,1623,479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}