Purple Magnolia

Magnolia liliflora

January 8th’s birth flower

Location: ✨gemini
Location: ✨gemini
Location: National theater front yard
Location: Kiyosumi Shirakawa
Location: Kojimachi
Location: Koto-ku(Tokyo)
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: National theater front yard

Flower name
Purple Magnolia
Scientific name
Magnolia liliflora
Aliasマグノリア, 紫木蓮, Mulan magnolia, モクレン, 木蓮, モクレンゲ, 木蓮華, Magnolia
Place of originChina
Place of floweringGarden, Park
Flowering seasonMarch, April
Language of flowers“Purity of Heart,” “Love for Nature,” “Endurance”

What is Purple Magnolia

Birth flowers for Jan 8

January 8th’s birth flowers are
Purple Magnolia(Magnolia Liliflora)、Mansaku(Hamamelis japonica)、and Violet(purpled color）.

✨"Longing for the Sky"

January 8th ~ Magnolia ~, Story and illustration by Gemini

"Longing for the Sky", ~ Magnolia ~ ,Story and illustration by Gemini

✨"Longing for the Sky"
In the winter garden where cold winds still blew, many plants shivered from the cold and huddled close to the ground.
However, the Magnolia was different. Its buds looked straight up at the sky, as if offering a prayer.

"Why are you stretching your back so straight? Are you not cold?" asked a passing winter wind.

The Magnolia loosened its thick purple petals just a little and replied: "The cold doesn't bother me. I want to be the first to tell the blue sky, 'Spring has come.'
Because underneath this purple coat, I keep a pure white hope hidden."

Its dignified figure was like a queen shining proudly, even under the cold winter sky.

Purple Magnolia(Magnolia Liliflora)

Magnolia Liliflora ,also called Purple Magnolia , Purple Magnolia or Shimokuren in Japanese (scientific name:Magnolia Liliflora) is a deciduous small tree of the family magnoliaceae native to China. It makes ovoid purple flowers bloom at the tip of branches before opening new leaves in early spring.
The flowers bloom upward with half-opening (the state that does not finish opening fully) .
The outside of the petal is only crimson and the inside is ultrathin crimson tinged with white or the whiteness.

Flower Language

“Purity of Heart,” “Love for Nature,” “Endurance”

＊The birth flowers and their meanings are based on Japanese tradition.

Common name: Purple Magnolia,
scientific name:Magnolia Liliflora, Magnolia quinquepeta,
aka: Magnolia, Mulan magnolia,
origin: China,
tree height: 300 - 500 cm,
leaf length: 10 to 18 cm, leaf arrangement: alternate,
flower color: dark red (outer) and white (inner) and petals: 6 images, sepals: 3 the calyx color: green purple and flower length: 10 cm, flowering time: March to ma.