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Originally Posted by Billit
I have a shrub which I do not know the name of.It has got a very glossy leaf on the top but a soft furry brown on the underside.It has flowered but it has taken several years to do so and the flower is very similar to a magnolia but probably just a little smaller.I was told it was known as the birthday tree.but I am not to sure about that.thanks for any help in identifying this shrub.
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Your description rather suggests Magnolia grandiflora, common name is bull bay. It is an evergreen. Most varieties of it actually have rather large flowers, fast-growing and tree-sized. But there are also smaller, slower-growing shrubby varieties, and they tend to have smaller flowers, as you describe.
I'm not aware of any plant commonly known as a "birthday tree", and google didn't find me one. It is not impossible "birthday" is a garbling of "bull bay".