Magnolia ‘Forrest’s Pink’

Magnolia ‘Forrest’s Pink’ produces lightly-scented, goblet-shaped flowers with 9 to 11 tepals in the spring. The flowers are deep-pink at the base and fade to pink-white near the top. Magnolia ‘Forrest’s Pink’ has an upright growth habit. Magnolia ‘Forrest’s Pink’ is deciduous, not native to New Zealand, and usually listed as a Magnolia denudata cultivar. However, unpublished data has shown that it is almost certainly a hybrid. Its precise parentage remains unknown. Magnolia ‘Forrest’s Pink’ was raised as a seedling (possibly from one of George Forrest’s seed collections) in the 1920s at Caerhays Estate in Cornwall, England.