Magnolia grandiflora named `Green Giant`

Abstract

A new southern magnolia for the grandiflora variety distinguished by its rapid dense growth and large glossy leaves which are green on both sides and exhibit minimal pubescence, as well as the coarse, textured, broad, blunt, flame shape tree and dense foliage with a strong, dominant central leader.

I claim: 
     
       1. The new and distinct cultivar of Magnolia grandiflora, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by a coarse textured, broad, blunt, flame shape and by a pyramidal growth habit with a fairly coarse branch structure, and its dense foliage of coarse textured, green backed leaves exhibiting little pubescence and by exhibiting little to no flowering.