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    Magnolia basically is an enormous species of around 210 flowering plants in the subfamily of the family Magnoliaceae. The usual variety of Magnolia class is some what scattered.

    It contains North American, Central American, West Indian as well as the east of Southeast Asia. Currently many kinds of Magnolia and an ever growing quantity of hybrids can even be seen as ornamental trees in huge sections of North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The species gets its name from the Pierre Magnol, which is a botanist from Montpellier in France.

    The magnolia has been there from a very long time, having emerged much before the bees came into being; the flowers grew to encourage pollination by beetles. The Magnolia has been made the formal state flower of both Mississippi as well as Louisiana.
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