This large and upright-growing tree produces a magnificent display of huge, purple-pink, cup and saucer-shaped flowers with white flushed pink interiors from late-winter to early-spring. The flowers have 12 tepals and can be as wide as 23cm. Although Magnolia campbellii ‘Charles Raffill’ takes around five years to start flowering, it is well worth the wait. Magnolia campbellii ‘Charles Raffill’ has wide-spreading branches that further enhance its beauty. Magnolia campbellii is deciduous and native to China, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Learn more about Magnolia campbellii. Magnolia campbellii ‘Charles Raffill’ was selected in the 1960s from seedlings sent by Charles Raffill of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Richmond, United Kingdom (that he worked on in the 1940s) to The Valley Gardens, Windsor Great Park in The Crown Estate Windsor Great Park, United Kingdom.