Bracken's Brown Beauty Magnolia

Landscape & Garden Uses

Bracken’s Brown Beauty Magnolia is a tough, cold-hardy evergreen tree known for glossy dark green leaves, velvety coppery-brown undersides, and large fragrant white flowers. Lustrous, leathery foliage is rich, dark green above and cinnamon brown underneath. Large, 5 to 6 inch creamy white flowers are exotically fragrant. A hardier magnolia that transplants well and does not lose as many leaves as other varieties, and exhibits better cold tolerance than others. Evergreen.

LIGHT: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun

WATER: Average, Low when established

SIZE: 30-40 ft. height, 15-20 ft. width

Growing Preferences

Brackens Brown Magnolia is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil or average or better fertility and full sun or part shade. At least 4 hours of direct sunlight or all-day filtered sun is suggested.

Zone: 5-9

Mature Height: 30-50 ft. tall

Mature Spread: 15-30 ft. wide

Landscape Characteristics

Growing upright to 30-40 feet tall and 15-20 feet wide, Brackens Brown Magnolia is ideal for use in evergreen privacy screen plantings, as a focal point specimen, to frame in the corners of tall homes or other structures, or as espalier (trained to grow against a wall) on tall, open walls. A fine addition to fragrance, bird and wildlife gardens, cut flower gardens and cottage gardens.

Ornamental Characteristics

This compact magnolia variety boasts dense, lustrous, dark green foliage with a leathery texture and velvety brown undersides. This evergreen produces large white flowers with rounded petals in late spring, which give way to dark brown ornamental cones bearing bright red seeds in summer.

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