View full sizeAlan Branhagen / Kansas City StarThe Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is well-known as a traditional tree for Louisiana landscapes ... that magnolia roots are very sensitive ...

To the untrained eye, it may look like any other magnolia ... roots run very deep all the way back to Orangeburg in 1945. The late John F. Brailsford Sr. ,Shady Grove nursery founder, named the ...