Magnolia campbellii ‘Valentine’s Torch’
With primrose yellow flower buds that open to creamy yellow with a pink flash on the underside of the tepals
First flowered here in 2002 and was received as M campbellii form 'Alba' yet when the perules were opening revealed primrose yellow buds opening to yellow with an obvious pinkish-purple flash at the base of the tepals exterior and exactly how Maurice Foster describes a magnolia he encountered in Bhutan in 1990.
Tepals = 12 mostly but have counted more, broadly ovate 10cm x 6cm.
Peduncle = glabrous
As the first flowers opened on the 14th February, Saint Valentine's day it was named M 'Valentine's Torch'