Is This Magnolia × soulangeana?

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Mipii (Robin) Blissfield, MI(Zone 6a) May 14, 2014

This little beauty is in my MIL's front yard, is it a Magnolia × soulangeana (Saucer Magnolia)?

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ViburnumValley Scott County, KY(Zone 5b) May 15, 2014

Feels more like a 'Leonard Messel'....

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Mipii (Robin) Blissfield, MI(Zone 6a) May 15, 2014

What was the tell?

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Weerobin Saint Louis, MO(Zone 6a) May 16, 2014

I'm no magnolia specialist so I'm not really sure what your plant is.
But I don't think it's Leonard Messel.
It's hard for me to disagree w/ VV, but I'll stick my neck out and suggest he had one too many glasses of a fine Nebbiolo which distorted his vision.
Leonard has a more dissected flower.
(If VV turns out to be right, well, it won't be my first mis-identification!)
The saucer magnolias I'm familiar with have a darker color at the base of the flower.
But I'm sure there are a zillion cultivars with variations of color.

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Mipii (Robin) Blissfield, MI(Zone 6a) May 16, 2014

The blossoms on my MIL's Magnolia look larger with fewer petals than 'Leonard Messel'. Me thinks VV is just messelling with me to make me work for it.

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