Early Explorations of Elephant Ears (Magnolia macrophylla): A Personal Note
Marion Lobstein was our featured speaker last year and a driver behind the Flora of Virginia
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By VNPS Communications on May 26, 2020 06:17 pm
By Marion Lobstein
Elephant Ears (Magnolia macrophylla)
Photo by William (Ned) Friedman CC BY-SA 4.0
From the age of 9, I grew up as Marion Louise Coble in Stanley, NC from 1955 through 1968. As a child I explored the woods about my home on North Peterson Street. An intersecting street was East Poplar where I found a woody plant with very large leaves. I even pressed some of the smaller leaves of this tree for my Girl Scout “Tree” merit badge. All of us children in the neighborhood called this plant “Elephant Ears.”