Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Maryland Bigleaf Magnolia Discoveries, 1 by claypa

claypa wrote:
This one isn't the US champion candidate, although I think I know where that one is. This is one of the hundreds in the park mentioned in the article. I looked for them several times before I called the man who discovered them in the first place, he kindly pointed me in the right direction - the park is very large, it follows the Patapsco river off and on for miles.

The one I found today is maybe forty feet / twelve meters or so tall, nine inches / twenty-three cm. dbh. It really is a beautiful tree. I read that the leaves are the biggest of any dicot in the U.S., and the flowers are, too.