Love those leaves: mountain magnolia!
A small, deciduous tree, Magnolia fraseri var. fraseri is a species of Magnolia native to the Appalachian Mountains: Fraser Magnolia is named for the Scottish botanist John Fraser (1750–1811), who collected extensively in the Appalachian Mountains; showy white flowers 6-10" (16–25 cm) in diameter with nine tepals [segments of the outer whorl in a flower that have no differentiation between petals and sepals] open in late spring or early summer, after the foliage, quite large leaves 15–25 cm (rarely up to 53 cm) long and 8–18 cm (rarely up to 29 cm) broad, with a pair of auricles (or "ear-lobes") at the base, and an entire margin
Love those leaves: mountain magnolia!
A small, deciduous tree, Magnolia fraseri var. fraseri is a species of Magnolia native to the Appalachian Mountains: Fraser Magnolia is named for the Scottish botanist John Fraser (1750–1811), who collected extensively in the Appalachian Mountains; showy white flowers 6-10" (16–25 cm) in diameter with nine tepals [segments of the outer whorl in a flower that have no differentiation between petals and sepals] open in late spring or early summer, after the foliage, quite large leaves 15–25 cm (rarely up to 53 cm) long and 8–18 cm (rarely up to 29 cm) broad, with a pair of auricles (or "ear-lobes") at the base, and an entire margin