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Magnolia obovata (Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Magnolia obovata (Japanese bigleaf magnolia and Japanese whitebark magnolia) is a species of Magnolia, native to Japan and the adjacent Kurile Islands. It grows at altitudes near sea level up to 1,800 m in mixed broadleaf forests.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Pollinators [1]  Beetles
Scent [1]  The flowers are powerfully scented;
Structure [1]  Tree
Usage [1]  Wood - soft, fine grained, easily worked. Used for furniture, engraving, utensils etc;
Height [1]  49 feet (15 m)
Width [1]  20 feet (6 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Kurilsky State Nature Reserve 161520 Sakhalin, Russia    

Predators

Ceroplastes pseudoceriferus (Indian wax scale)[2]
Gibbovalva magnoliae[3]
Lepidosaphes tubulorum (tube scale)[2]
Takahashia japonica[2]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0