Magnolia kobus ( Nana Compacta Kobus Magnolia )
Compact and slow growing multifariousness . grow at Kohankie Nursery in Painesville , Ohio , sometime before 1950 . Deciduous trees or shrubs , reach 80 foot tall with rough chocolate-brown or silvery gray bark . Twigs are greeny - yellow . last buds are insure with argent hairs . Leaves are fluid and dark green with paler greenish undersurface . The bloodless flowers are fragrant with violet stamens . flower in March to April , fruit August to September ....