Michelia champaca

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Legendary for its seductively fragrant flowers, champaca is a big tree in its native tropical Asian forest. In your subtropical garden it will likely not reach those heights, but it will fill your outdoor space with sweet perfume. If you get cold winters of any kind, enjoy this one in a pot indoors over winter.

Champaca is the origin of the word shampoo as the perfumed petals were used to make hair oil. Buddhists believe you'll achieve enlightenment if you sit beneath a champaca tree - as if you needed further incentive to plant it!

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Description

Michelia champaca, Magnolia champaca - champaca

APPEARANCE : Tall glossy-leaved magnolia with smooth pale bark and highly-fragrant cream-yellow flowers usually in spring-summer, but often all year round in mild climates. These are followed by round seedpods that look like amaretti biscuits.
USE FOR : Feature stree, sensory garden. Plant where the flowers can be enjoyed - near a patio or seating area.
CLIMATE : Frost free; it grows across tropical and subtropical Asia.
PLANTING : Flowers best in full sun; part shade is appreciated for young plants. Mulch and fertilise at the time of planting, in a well drained loamy fertile soil.
CARE : Clip back to shape after flowering. Feed with a slow release fertiliser and mulch in spring.
MATURE HEIGHT & WIDTH : 10m+ H x 8m W
YOUR PLANTS : These are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.
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