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MAGNOLIACEAE - - Magnolia Family
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Cucumber-tree, Cucumber Magnolia (Magnolia acuminata) - Tree becoming 30 m. tall; leaf-blades elliptic to ovate, or rarely obovate, 1.5—3 dm. long, more or less acuminate, usually membranous; sepals mostly lanceolate or elliptic; petals cuneate to oblanceolate, 5—7 cm. long, greenish or yellowish-green (or yellowish in var. subcordata); fruit-cone 5—8 cm. long, usually with many follicles.
Mesic to subxeric forests, especially (but by no means strictly) over mafic or calcareous rocks, up to at least 1550m (where growing with Betula alleghaniensis, Abies fraseri, Picea rubens, and Sorbus americana), ultramafic outcrop barrens (where codominant with Pinus rigida and Quercus alba).
Habitat information from:
Weakley, Alan S., Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, Working Draft of 21 May 2015.
The range of Magnolia acuminata (Cucumber-tree, Cucumber Magnolia)
Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2015. North American Plant Atlas. (http://bonap.net/napa). Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2015. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].
The Georgia range of Magnolia acuminata (Cucumber-tree, Cucumber Magnolia)
Zomlefer, W.B., J.R. Carter, & D.E. Giannasi. 2014 (and ongoing). The Atlas of Georgia Plants. University of Georgia Herbarium (Athens, Georgia) and Valdosta State University Herbarium (Valdosta, Georgia). Available at: http://www.georgiaherbaria.org/.
Guide to the Trees of North Georgia and Adjacent States
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