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Old 03-28-2008, 06:19 PM   #104 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kaycee View Post
The blossoms are big...each petal is probably three or four inches long. If I put my index fingers and thumbs together in an oval, that's probably about the size of each petal, maybe a little bigger. They're such a pale pink that they are nearly white with a deeper pink in the center.

I'll take a few pics when it blooms and if I ever find the little connecter cable thingy for my camera and set up a photobucket account, I'll post them!

It doesn't look at all like the crabapple blossom pictures here.
Ok, now that sounds like it might be a Magnolia soulangiana:

Does the flower look like this?

Click on "Habit" on that site (to the right) and you can see a very old, big tree...
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