Grant, Nice plant you have.

I am interested in this plant. Where are you located and where did you purchased this plant?

@Kawagoe (Santa Clara,CAHome of SF 49ers)I am in Australia, but I believe in the states you can easily purchase michelia alba trees from various nurseries, in particular in California where the climates are similar to ours, good luck

Hi Kawagoe,

Check with the nursery, South Pacific Orchids, Inc. It locates in Gilroy, CA. They have a website, www.southpacificorchid.com. On its website, currently it says their Michelia alba supplies while last. Call them up before you go. Good luck.

Grant, HU-163952208

Thank you. I will contact South Pacific Orchids today.

Called that place and plants are not in the stock until this spring.......Maybe better to wait until spring time....

Some vendors include: Top Tropicals; Zone 9 tropicals; Logees; various people on eBay (just do a search).

amazing. how hard is this to grow it? this plant has my favorite fragrance of all. do you think buying it from ebay grafted will get me something?

@youngbotanist11 Not too hard to grow if your local weather is appropriate, i.e. not too hard nor too cold, otherwise you need to grow it in pot. Grafted plant would be good, most on sale plant might be marcotted.

Both grafted and marcotted Michelia alba will have the same wonderful flowers and fragrance.

Marcotted Michelia alba was propagated from a matured Michelia alba mother plant.

Most grafted Michelia alba was a Michelia alba branch as scion grafted onto a young Michelia champaca plant, which already has roots, as the root stock. Michelia champaca is biologically and physiologically similar to Michelia alba.

It is really up to the growers which plant materials and environment are available to them to pick the methods. But since both methods are quite time consuming to cultivate them successfully and into maturity, the costs are relatively high, so does the selling price.

Michelia alba is a tropical tree. To plant a tropical tree in a pot successfully requires us to learn more about its habitat and characters. Its heavenly fragrance, beautiful leaves and majestic tree shape are well worth our efforts !

@MYAL plantLOVER Living in UK might require you to plant michelia alba in pot & move it inside house to keep it warm during winter: below -3 Celsius night temperatures might kill the plant

I'd love to get my hands on this.

@MYAL plantLOVER Try your local nurseries or EU eBay sellers

Since we talked about marcotting Michelia alba a few months ago, I would like to share a few photos of my marcotted Michelia alba. Marcotting propagation on plant is also called Air-layering propagation.

I did the marcotting of the Michelia alba branch last year. I cut the branch off and potted it two weeks ago.

It is amazing to see the branch has such wonderful design built in to be able to transform itself into a new plant.

Great! Hope yours will grow into a flowering tree soon, just keep your new baby humid all the time and not under the sun. I failed to get mine to live after transporting the marcotted branch into pot last year, will try again this coming spring.

@matt2838 Yes indeed, marcotting more than one branches at the same time is certainly a very good idea, will do that in our next spring

@matt38 Yes the spring just arrived here in Sydney but the Michelia Alba trees usually start their new leave growth later in September or Early October so I will do marcotting then, thanks for your info sharing they have been very useful. How is your marcotted Michelia Alba, is it much bigger now or even flowered?

@matt2838 Thanks for your photo it looks great, hopefully when I do it I will get similar success. I found a good video for marcotting michelia alba on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ms2USA9kCmo

Matt38

Very nice