What is Magnolia (tree)?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Magnolia'' | image =Magnolia_wieseneri.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''Magnolia x wieseneri'' | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Magnoliales]] | familia = [[Magnoliaceae]] | genus = '''''Magnolia''''' | genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]] | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }} [[File:Magnolia campbellii flowers.jpg|thumb|M.campbelli]] [[File:Magnolia (tree).jpg|thumb|Magnolia tree]] '''Magnolia''' is a [[genus]] of about 210 to 340 species. The [[Flowering plant|Angiosperm]] [[taxonomy|taxonomical]] names ''[[Magnoliophyta]]'' ([[division (biology)|division]]) and ''[[Magnoliopsida]]'' ([[class (biology)|class]]) come from this genus. Charles Plumier gave a flowering tree from the [[island]] of [[Martinique]] the genus name ''Magnolia'', after [[France|French]] [[botany|botanist]] [[Pier Magnol]]. ''Magnolia'' is an ancient genus. It appeared before [[bee]]s evolved. The flowers are thought to have evolved by encouraging [[pollination]] by [[beetle]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A review of pollination of Magnolias by beetles, with a collecting survey made in the Carolinas |last=Peigler |first=Richard |journal=Magnolia |volume=24 |issue=45 |pages=1–7 |date=1988 |url=https://www.magnoliasociety.org/resources/Journal/Images/1986-2011_ISSUES_41-90/ISSUE%2045_03-09_A%20REVIEW%20OF%20POLLINATION%20OF%20MAGNOLIAS%20BY%20BEETLES%20WITH%20A%20COLLECTING%20SURVEY%20MADE%20IN%20THE%20CAROLINAS_RICHARD%20S.%20PEIGLER.pdf}}</ref> To avoid damage from pollinating beetles, the [[carpel]]s of ''Magnolia'' flowers are extremely tough.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Convergent evolution and adaptive radiation of beetle-pollinated angiosperms |last=Bernhardt |first=P. |journal=Plant Systematics and Evolution |volume=222 |issue=1–4 |pages=293–320 |date=2000 |url=http://www.uvm.edu/~dbarring/241/bernhardt2000.pdf |doi=10.1007/bf00984108 |s2cid=25387251 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archiv