Bark
Grey to greyish-brown, becoming rough with age.
Magnolia champaca
Syn. Michelia champaca
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
(LC)
Local name
- Golden Champa (English)
- Son champa (Hindi)
- Sachochampo (Gujarati)
Tree type
Evergreen
Deciduous
Family: Magnoliaceae
50m
Indicated uses
Medicinal
Edible
Ornamental
Avenue
Other
Flowering & fruiting
Flowering
Fruiting
Key characters
Leaves
Leaf-stalks are 2-4 cm, leaves elliptic or ovate, 10-20 x 4.5-10 cm, slightly puberulous below, base broadly wedge-shaped or rounded, ttip long-pointed.
Flower
Flowers are fragrant, tepals 15-20, yellow, inverted-lanceshaped, 2-4 x 0.4-0.5 cm. Staminal connective is protruding and forming a long tip.
Fruit / Seeds
Fruit is 7-15 cm; mature carpels obovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm, tuberculate. Seeds 2-4 per carpel, rugose.
Did you know?
The flower has undifferentiated tepals instead of true sepals and petals, an ancient trait, and magnolias are mainly pollinated by beetles.Its ripe pods later reveal bright red seeds hanging on delicate threads that attract birds.
Distribution
S. India to S. Central China and Lesser Sunda Islands.