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Apr 23, 2024 · Meaning & History. Expand Links. Probably a variant of Yolanda influenced by the Greek words ἰόλη ( iole) meaning "violet" and ἄνθος ( anthos) meaning "flower". This name was (first?) used by Gilbert and Sullivan in their comic opera Iolanthe (1882).
Height: 15 feet. Spread: 10 feet. Sunlight: Hardiness Zone: 5a. Description: A beautiful flowering accent shrub for small home landscapes, features showy fragrant pink cup-shaped flowers tinged purple in early spring; relatively coarse leaves and a neat oval habit of growth.
1 day ago · The name Iolanthe is a girl's name of French, Greek origin meaning "violet flower". Iolanthe is known primarily through the 1882 Gilbert & Sullivan operetta of that name, in which the title character is a fairy. Iolanthe is a softer version of Yolanda, and is the kind of multi-syllabic classical name once considered too weighty for a modern ...
Iolanthe flowers consistently and prolifically every year without fail and is now a tree of some stature – around 10 metres high and 7 metres wide. It shows the longest flowering season of any of the magnolias at Tikorangi as it flowers down the stem. Vulcan™ was the true colour break in Felix’s magnolias and probably his greatest source of pride.
- 'Hawk'
- 'Heaven Scent'
- 'Honey Liz'
- 'Hot Flash'
- 'Hot Lips'
- 'Ian's Red'
- 'Iolanthe'
- 'Iufer'
- 'Ivory Chalice'
Flowers precocious (March in S England), rose purple, abundant. Small to medium tree, a seedling given to Nigel Holman, Chyverton, Cornwall from Caerhays Castle before 1978.
Flowers precocious, very fragrant, narrowly cup-shaped, delicate pink with lavender overtones, deeper towards the base. A floriferous upright, small to medium tree. One of the original Gresham hybrids, starred by Philippe de Spoelberch as worthwhile from his Belgian perspective (pers. comm. 2021).
Flowers with or just before the leaves, large; tepals 6–7, deep yellow, rather floppy. A strong tree with lightly twisted branches and large dark green leaves, selected by Philippe de Spoelberch at Arboretum Wespelaar before 2001, from a 1992 August Kehr cross (Arboretum Wespelaar 2021). The cultivar name reflects its parentage.
Flowers with the new leaves, to 12.5 cm across, deep yellow with a pink basal flush on each narrow tepal. Upright, fast growing small tree selected by August Kehr, 1992 (Edwards & Marshall 2019).
Flowers precocious (late March to early April, Belgium), 20 cm across; tepals 8, pink outside deepening to maroon at the base, inside white with a hint of pink. Leaves nearly oval, to 23 × 23 cm. A small, potentially medium tree bought from the Esveld nursery, The Netherlands, by Philippe de Spoelberch who recognised its hybridity, naming it in 199...
Flowers saucer shaped, to 20 cm across, before the leaves; tepals 12, clear red. Habit often shrubby. Buds more tender than ‘Vulcan’, and flower colour more variable (Edwards & Marshall 2019). Raised by Ian Baldick, New Zealand, before 2004; his ‘Red As’ has the same parentage.
Flowers precocious, from mid-March in S England, bowl-shaped, very large, to 28 cm across; tepals soft lavendar-pink outside, cream inside. A small tree flowering from an early age and over a prolonged period, buds being produced down the length of the branches. An early Felix Jury hybrid, introduced by Duncan & Davies, New Zealand, in the early 19...
Flowers precocious, large and white; stamens red-tipped. A floriferous and sometimes beautifully shaped small, pyramidal tree, an example in Washington State reaching only 5–6 m in 30 years. Origin unknown but named before 1986 for Ernest & Louise Iufer who grew it for many years on their Salem, OR, nursery (Mossman 1986). Philippe de Spoelberch, B...
Flowers precocious, over a long season; tepals 9, creamy white to pale yellow-green. Raised by David Leach, OH, before 1987.
Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri (/ aɪ. oʊ ˈ l æ n θ iː /) is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Iolanthe is a New Zealand magnolia hybrid bred and introduced by Felix M.Jury in 1984. It bears large flowers that open from deep rosy pink buds into somewhat rounded flowers that are pinky-purple outside and almost white inside with a very conspicuous centre full of red stamens which makes it look like a giant poppy flower.
