Natchez Magnolias

The Official Flower of Mississippi

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The Southern Magnolia (magnolia grandiflora to you science types) is abundant in the Natchez area.  The photos you see here were taken in the immediate downtown area and in Vidalia, LA, just across the Mississippi River.

 

An especially beautiful, old Magnolia tree resides in the Natchez City Cemetery.  It spreads over a bricked section of graves like a protecting mother.  Another, down the path a bit, differs from this one in that it towers over the top of a hill, and can be seen from quite some distance.