Magnolia jardinensis

This tree can reach a height of up to 25 m and up to 60 cm in diameter. The bark is grey coloured with dark streaks. Young leaves have a woolly and golden pubescence. Leaves are spiralled, elliptic and chartaceous, 15.3 cm to 34 cm in length and 10.6 to 21.4 cm in width. They have a dense, golden pubescence on the underside, with a petiole streaked longitudinally. Flowers are cream-coloured, with a floral bud with three pubescent bracts, three sepals and eight pulpy petals. Fruits are small and elliptical.^[2][3][4]

The tree is endemic to the Colombian department of Antioquia. It grows in tropical forest and in very wet low mountain forest, in the western cordillera of Jardín, between 1,900 and 2,800m altitude.^[4]

In the past it was probably a very sought-after logged timber species, similar to others species of its family.^[4]

Magnolia jardinensis was classified as a critically endangered species (CR) by the Red book of Colombian plants,^[5] which is due to its distributional range and because the population is very small.^[4]