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magnolia

Pierre Magnol was a botanist in Montpellier and an early classifier of plant families. In 1703 Charles Plumier named a flowering tree Magnolia after him, Linnaeus kept the name, and it spread through Europe and Asia — and became the emblem of the American South.

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