Hard to believe, but this innocuous looking flower smells like bubblegum! You know that old fashioned bubblegum flavour of bubblegum? That smell! Its amazing and I love it. The flowers you actually have to look for as they are about the size of my thumb nail, so you tend to smell when the tree is in flower before you see it in bloom. Its a small tree called a Port Wine Magnolia, it doesnt really grow much more then about 7 meters or so and it has lovely rich, glossy leaves, so its nice as a background but not so much as a feature tree. We have about 10 of them forming a lovely backdrop in the memorial park. There are perfumed roses planted underneath them so to be working there at present is such a delight for the senses.
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