Magnolia ‘Gold Star’ bears a profusion of fragrant, large, star-shaped flowers in a soft cream-yellow color with up to 14 tepals. Magnolia ‘Gold Star’ flowers in mid-spring and has bronze-red spring leaves that turn green through the summer. It has an upright growth habit with spreading branches. Magnolia ‘Gold Star’ is deciduous, not native to New Zealand, and a hybrid between Magnolia acuminata var. subcordata ‘Miss Honeybee’ and Magnolia stellata ‘Rubra’. Magnolia ‘Gold Star’ was developed before 2000 by Phil Savage in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, United States.