What is the latin name of the magnolia flower?

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. You need to tell us which species you are referring to before we can give you an answer.





In 1703 Charles Plumier described a flowering tree from the island of Martinique in his Genera. He gave the species, that was locally known as 'Talauma', the genus name Magnolia, after Pierre Magnol. The English botanist William Sherard, who studied botany in Paris under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, a pupil of Magnol, was most probably the first after Plumier to adopt the genus name Magnolia. He was at least responsible for the taxonomic part of Dillenius's Hortus Elthamensis and of Catesby's famous Natural history of Carolina. These were the first works after Plumier's Genera that used the name Magnolia, this time for some species of flowering trees from temperate North America.





Linnaeus, who was familiar with Plumier's Genera, adopted the genus name Magnolia in 1735 in his first edition of Systema naturae, without a description but with a reference to Plumier's work. In 1753, he took up Plumier's Magnolia in the first edition of Species plantarum. As Linnaeus did never see a herbarium specimen (if there has ever been one) of Plumier's Magnolia and had only his description and a rather poor picture at hand, he must have taken it for the same plant as Catesby described in 1731 in his Natural history of Carolina and placed it in the synonymy of Magnolia virginiana var. foetida, the taxon now known as Magnolia grandiflora.





The species that Plumier originally named Magnolia was later described as Annona dodecapetala by Lamarck, and has since been named Magnolia plumieri and Talauma plumieri (and still a number of other names) but is now known as Magnolia dodecapetala.

What is the latin name of the magnolia flower?
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Reply:What are you whining about gyvuphays? The man asked what for the specific epithet of Magnolia is and I informed him that it is a diverse genus and provided the naming history of the type species.





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Reply:Magnolia virginiana
Reply:Magnolia it self is THE Latin name of the flower in question.





The generic name,Magnolia is derived from the name of a botanist.





There are about 210 species of Magnolia which belongs to Angiosperm family Magnoliaceae.





These trees are found in tropical and temperate countries.





Magnolia grandiflora is perhaps the best known amongst them. As the name implies , it has large flowers white in colour and sweetly scented.





As a rule Magnolia flowers are large and attractive.





Now , which Magnolia (out of 210) have you in mind?
Reply:grandiflora





Quo Vadis is a Latin phrase meaning "Whither goest thou?
Reply:which one?





polianthes tuberosa
Reply:there are different types of magnolia


Magnolia grandiflora- southern magnolia


M. kobus var. borealis- Kobus magnolia


M. salicifolia- Anise magnolia


M. stellata- Star magnolia
Reply:Quo Vadis
Reply:don't forget Magnolia solangiana