Probably the most commonly planted Magnolia in Indiana is Magnolia x soulageana. A few weeks ago I noticed that not only were there no reports on iNaturalist for Magnolia x soulageana in Indiana but none in the rest of the USA either. Yesterday I found a report of Magnolia not identified to specie…

This is a cultivated species and should be marked as cultivated for that reason. For some species in a given area if the proportion of “casual” (cultivated) observations of a species exceeds wild occurrences it will automatically trigger the site to mark it as cultivated. Also, cultivated species a…

There are over 6000 (verifiable and unverifiable) observations in the US: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?locale=en&place_id=1&preferred_place_id=1&taxon_id=204586&verifiable=any You may see what you see if you limit the search to the section https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1330821-Magnol…

In your last link, uncheck the “Verifiable” box in the filters to show Casual observations (where captive/cultivated observations are classified).

welcome to the forum :) (I’ve moved this to general since it’s not a curation issue)

In addition to the above, Magnolia x soulangeana is a sterile hybrid, so it’s unlikely that any observation could be verifiable since it cannot self-seed.

Why no reports of Magnolia x soulangeana in USA?

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Why no reports of Magnolia x soulangeana in USA?

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