Description
This beautiful variety , has huge pink flowers that appear en mass before the leaves in late winter August here … Magnificent 23-25 cm large saucer shaped , slightly scented flowers, pink when in bud …. These open to flowers with tepals of rose-pink on the outside and pale white inside in August here ... A selection made from a hybrid between western subspecies campbellii and the eastern subspecies mollicomata … The first hybrid, from which several forms were selected ,made by Charles Raffill, a horticulturist at Kew, in 1946 … Like most campbellii hybrids they can take some years to flower , but be assured your wait is rewarded by the most exquisite blooms … Family: Magnoliaceae