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(Magnoliaceae) is the accepted, broadly circumscribed genus of evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs with typically entire leaves, large flowers of undifferentiated tepals and numerous spirally arranged stamens and carpels, and follicle aggregates whose seeds hang on threads in a fleshy coloured testa; Kew treats it as absorbing former Michelia, Manglietia, Talauma, Yulania and related genera, remaining sister only to Liriodendron.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, physical form, life stage, condition, reproductive activity and management constraints of an individual plant provisionally or confidently assigned to Magnolia; species, hybrid and cultivar identity remain explicit rather than assumed.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence identifying the individual as Magnolia and resolving its species, hybrid or cultivar where possible", "Tree or shrub form, dimensions, foliage persistence and seasonal development", "Root-zone conditions, planting context and exposure relevant to the individual", "Vegetative health, flowering, fruiting and evidence of stress or damage", "Care and propagation decisions supported by identity, condition and management history" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Taxonomic revision and nomenclatural authority for the genus", "The garden, woodland or landscape containing the plant as a managed whole", "Soil bodies, irrigation infrastructure and regional climate as independent systems", "Pollinators, pests and pathogens as independently modelled organisms", "Detached timber, medicinal preparations and commercial products derived from magnolias" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check for alternate, simple leaves and stipule scars encircling the twig; record photographs because neither feature alone establishes Magnolia.", "Inspect an open flower for numerous tepals, numerous stamens and a central assembly of carpels rather than identifying the plant from flower colour alone.", "When fruit is present, inspect the cone-like aggregate and its individual fruit units; distinguish it from a conifer's seed cone.", "When confused with Liriodendron, compare leaf shape: the characteristic lobed, truncated leaf of a tulip tree contrasts with the unlobed leaves typical of magnolias.", "Distinguish magnolias from other large-flowered ornamentals using leaf arrangement, twig scars and reproductive structures together; retain a provisional identification when these observations are unavailable." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxon and cultivar assignment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Magnolia species, hybrid or cultivar designation; unresolved; confidence and identification basis", "why_it_matters": "Expected size, foliage persistence, flowering pattern and site tolerances depend on the identity." }, { "name": "Propagation and graft relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Own-root or grafted; scion and rootstock identities if known; propagation source", "why_it_matters": "Rootstock shoots may differ from the intended cultivar, and propagation method affects whether identity is preserved." }, { "name": "Growth form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Single-stem tree, multi-stem tree or shrub; trained form", "why_it_matters": "Form affects space requirements, structural assessment and pruning choices." }, { "name": "Plant dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and crown spread in metres; stem diameter in centimetres with measurement position", "why_it_matters": "Dimensions establish clearance needs and provide a baseline for growth or decline." }, { "name": "Foliage persistence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Deciduous, evergreen, partially retained or unresolved under observed conditions", "why_it_matters": "Normal seasonal leaf loss must be distinguished from abnormal defoliation." }, { "name": "Seasonal development", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Bud dormancy, bud expansion, flowering, leaf expansion, active growth, fruit development or leaf senescence; observation date", "why_it_matters": "Care timing and interpretation of frost injury depend on the plant's actual stage." }, { "name": "Root-zone moisture", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Volumetric water content in percent where measured; sampling depth, location and method", "why_it_matters": "Moisture evidence helps distinguish water shortage from symptoms occurring in persistently wet soil." }, { "name": "Root-zone acidity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "pH with sampling location, date and test method", "why_it_matters": "Measured acidity supports investigation of nutrient availability without assuming one requirement for every magnolia." }, { "name": "Crown and foliage condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Leaf discolouration, scorch, wilting, abnormal leaf loss and shoot dieback; extent and distribution", "why_it_matters": "The pattern and progression of symptoms guide investigation and intervention." }, { "name": "Reproductive outcome", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Flower buds present, flowers opened, flowers damaged, fruit developing or mature seed observed", "why_it_matters": "It separates failure to initiate flowers from damage during flowering or failure to develop fruit." } ], "affordances": [ "Build a provisional identification from leaves, twig scars, flowers and fruit, then request expert confirmation where needed.", "Track seasonal development and distinguish expected leaf turnover from emerging decline.", "Assess planting suitability using the identified magnolia's expected form and documented environmental requirements.", "Plan watering, mulching or root-zone investigation from measured conditions and observed symptoms.", "Evaluate pruning, transplanting or graft-sucker removal against plant condition, developmental stage and identity.", "Assess seed collection or vegetative propagation options while recording whether the intended cultivar identity can be retained." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "SRC-001", "title": "Magnolia Plum. ex L.", "url": "https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000709-2", "what_it_supports": "Accepted genus status, 1753 protologue, native range (E. Canada to Brazil and the Caribbean; India to the Kurils and New Guinea), synonymy of Michelia, Manglietia, Talauma, Yulania and others, and the IPNI LSID.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "SRC-002", "title": "Magnolia", "url": "https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/magnolia/", "what_it_supports": "Horticultural importance, two-genus Magnoliaceae (Magnolia + Liriodendron), leaf and fruit contrast with Liriodendron, Figlar & Nooteboom subgeneric sections, and ICNCP as the code for cultivar names.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-003", "title": "Magnolia (Q157017)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157017", "what_it_supports": "Wikidata item for the plant genus and cross-identifiers Catalogue of Life 8VZ4K, MeSH D031566, and APNI 437233.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-004", "title": "The Red List of Magnoliaceae", "url": "https://arbnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Magnoliaceae_RedList_2016_LowRes.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Family size (over 300 species in Magnolia and Liriodendron), ornamental, timber and medicinal use, threats from habitat loss and overharvest, and IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria v3.1 as the assessment method.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-005", "title": "Magnolia", "url": "https://mortonarb.org/plant-and-protect/trees-and-plants/magnolia/", "what_it_supports": "Landscape use of hybrids, typical garden sizes, shallow-rooted habit, and pests and disorders (magnolia scale, verticillium wilt, chlorosis on high-pH soils).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-006", "title": "Magnolia grandiflora: Southern Magnolia", "url": "https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/ST371", "what_it_supports": "Southern magnolia as a large evergreen specimen, Mississippi state tree, height and spread, USDA hardiness 7A-10A, street and screen use, and very large-flowered cultivars.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-007", "title": "Magnolia", "url": "https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/magnolia/", "what_it_supports": "Genus honoring Pierre Magnol, soil and site preferences, deer browse of young plants, and native eastern North American species distinguished in practice.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "SRC-008", "title": "Magnolia", "url": "https://snl.no/Magnolia", "what_it_supports": "Linnaean authorship, fruit and bird-dispersed seeds, dual native range, timber and East Asian medicinal use, and which species and hybrids are hardy in northern Europe.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "magnolia-identity", "name": "Magnolia identity", "description": "Evidence that the plant is a magnolia and that any finer identification is justified.", "rationale": "Magnolias vary substantially, so care decisions cannot safely inherit an unspecified species or cultivar profile.", "layers": [ { "id": "genus-recognition", "name": "Genus recognition", "description": "Observable vegetative and reproductive evidence supporting Magnolia.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-feature-combination", "name": "Diagnostic feature combination", "description": "Record the combination of leaf arrangement, twig scars, flower structure and fruit structure used for identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed leaf, twig, flower or fruit features support identifying this plant as Magnolia?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-feature-combination-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence excludes likely alternatives such as Liriodendron or another large-flowered ornamental?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnostic-feature-combination-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "species-hybrid-cultivar", "name": "Species, hybrid and cultivar", "description": "The finest defensible identity and the origin of that assignment.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-resolution", "name": "Identity resolution", "description": "Separate observed identification from nursery labels, collection records and unresolved cultivar claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "What species, hybrid or cultivar name is supported, and which parts of that assignment remain provisional?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the assignment come from a retained label, accession record, diagnostic assessment or another traceable source?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-seasonal-development", "name": "Form and seasonal development", "description": "The individual's architecture and dated sequence of foliage and flowering stages.", "rationale": "A shrub magnolia, a large evergreen tree and a deciduous spring-flowering magnolia require different baselines for interpreting growth and appearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "tree-shrub-architecture", "name": "Tree or shrub architecture", "description": "Dimensions, stem arrangement and departures from the expected growth form.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-growth-form", "name": "Individual growth form", "description": "Record the current form and whether it reflects natural development, training, damage or regrowth.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the plant's height, crown spread and stem arrangement at the observation date?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "individual-growth-form-q01" }, { "text": "Which features of its form are explained by cultivar habit, previous pruning, stem loss or basal regrowth?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "individual-growth-form-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "leaf-and-flower-calendar", "name": "Leaf and flower calendar", "description": "Observed foliage persistence and the timing of flowers relative to leaf emergence.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-phenology", "name": "Dated phenology", "description": "Establish the individual's seasonal pattern without imposing a single flowering season on the genus.", "questions": [ { "text": "When do flower buds expand and flowers open relative to leaf emergence on this individual?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-phenology-q01" }, { "text": "Does observed leaf loss match the identified magnolia's seasonal habit and this individual's previous records?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-phenology-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "root-zone-and-exposure", "name": "Root zone and exposure", "description": "The planting conditions and exposures needed to interpret establishment and stress.", "rationale": "Magnolia care depends on conditions around its roots and developing buds, while requirements vary with identity and site.", "layers": [ { "id": "root-zone-conditions", "name": "Root-zone conditions", "description": "Moisture, drainage, acidity and physical disturbance around the plant.", "findings": [ { "id": "root-environment-evidence", "name": "Root environment evidence", "description": "Record measured conditions and planting history before assigning below-ground causes to crown symptoms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What measurements or observations establish root-zone moisture, drainage and pH?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "root-environment-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Have planting depth, soil compaction, excavation or changes in ground level altered this magnolia's root environment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "root-environment-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bud-and-canopy-exposure", "name": "Bud and canopy exposure", "description": "Light, wind and temperature exposure at sensitive developmental stages.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-stage-match", "name": "Exposure and stage match", "description": "Connect exposure records to actual bud, flower and leaf condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What light, wind and minimum-temperature conditions occurred while buds, flowers or new leaves were developing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-stage-match-q01" }, { "text": "Does documented guidance for this magnolia's identity support changing its shelter, light exposure or planting position?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-stage-match-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-reproductive-performance", "name": "Condition and reproductive performance", "description": "Evidence of vegetative decline and the progression from flower buds to fruit.", "rationale": "A magnolia can fail to flower, lose flowers to an event or develop crown symptoms for different reasons that require different responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "vegetative-condition", "name": "Vegetative condition", "description": "Distribution, severity and progression of foliage, twig and stem symptoms.", "findings": [ { "id": "symptom-pattern", "name": "Symptom pattern", "description": "Describe symptoms and associated evidence without treating a visual symptom as a confirmed diagnosis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which leaves, shoots or stems show chlorosis, scorch, wilting, lesions or dieback, and how has the affected extent changed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "symptom-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What additional inspection or diagnostic evidence would distinguish environmental stress from pest or pathogen involvement?", "kind": "action", "id": "symptom-pattern-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "flower-to-fruit-outcome", "name": "Flower-to-fruit outcome", "description": "Separate bud formation, flower survival and fruit development.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-stage-outcome", "name": "Reproductive stage outcome", "description": "Locate the stage at which observed reproductive development stops or becomes damaged.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were flower buds absent, did buds fail to open, were open flowers damaged, or did flowers finish without observed fruit development?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-stage-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "What records of plant maturity, pruning, weather and cultivar reproductive behaviour could explain the observed outcome?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-stage-outcome-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-identity-preserving-propagation", "name": "Care and identity-preserving propagation", "description": "Supported interventions and the consequences of reproducing a named magnolia.", "rationale": "Intervention timing affects existing growth and flower buds, while grafting and propagation can complicate the identity of resulting shoots or plants.", "layers": [ { "id": "care-decision", "name": "Care decision", "description": "Translate observed need into a bounded intervention with an expected response.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-intervention", "name": "Justified intervention", "description": "Connect watering, mulching, pruning or transplanting to a documented problem and the individual's current stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed condition justifies the proposed intervention, and what improvement will be checked afterward?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-intervention-q01" }, { "text": "How do current flower-bud development, establishment status and root disturbance constrain the timing and extent of the work?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-intervention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "graft-and-propagation-identity", "name": "Graft and propagation identity", "description": "Origin of shoots and the identity expected from propagated material.", "findings": [ { "id": "propagule-and-shoot-origin", "name": "Propagule and shoot origin", "description": "Distinguish scion growth, rootstock growth and seed-derived offspring before labelling or acting on them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the magnolia grafted, and do the shoots or propagation material originate above or below the recorded graft union?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "propagule-and-shoot-origin-q01" }, { "text": "Will the proposed propagation method preserve the intended cultivar identity, or must the offspring remain separately identified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "propagule-and-shoot-origin-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Evergreen American southern or bull-bay magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora and its cultivars)", "Eastern North American deciduous and semi-evergreen species (cucumber tree, sweetbay, umbrella, bigleaf, Fraser)", "Precocious Asian deciduous Yulania group (yulan, lily magnolia, star, kobus, and saucer hybrids)", "Axillary-flowered Asian evergreens formerly placed in Michelia (champaca, banana shrub Magnolia figo)", "Tropical Asian Manglietia-type canopy trees", "Medicinal houpo bark trees (Magnolia officinalis, Magnolia obovata)", "Named garden hybrid groups (de Vos-Kosar Little Girl, Gresham, Jury, yellow Magnolia × brooklynensis)", "Neotropical Talauma-type forest trees" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q157017", "note": "Item for the plant genus Magnolia, not the homonymous places, works or software." }, { "scheme": "IPNI / LSID", "value_or_pattern": "urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000709-2", "note": "Magnolia Plum. ex L., first published in Species Plantarum: 535 (1753); Kew POWO treats the genus as accepted." }, { "scheme": "Catalogue of Life", "value_or_pattern": "8VZ4K", "note": "Genus-level CoL identifier recorded on Wikidata." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D031566", "note": "Descriptor Magnolia in the Medical Subject Headings." }, { "scheme": "APNI", "value_or_pattern": "437233", "note": "Australian Plant Name Index identifier for the genus." }, { "scheme": "ICN botanical name", "value_or_pattern": "Magnolia Plum. ex L.", "note": "Scientific name of the genus; species and nothospecies take the form Magnolia plus author citation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (IAPT) - governs the scientific name Magnolia Plum. ex L. and the synonymized generic names.", "International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants, 9th edition (ISHS Commission for Nomenclature and Registration) - governs cultivar epithets of garden magnolias.", "IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria version 3.1 (IUCN) - method used in The Red List of Magnoliaceae (Fauna & Flora International) to rate wild species." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Planted as specimen, street, screen and windbreak trees and shrubs for large, often fragrant flowers and, in evergreen species, dense foliage.", "Magnolia grandiflora is the state tree of Mississippi and a standard large evergreen in southeastern U.S. landscapes.", "Wild and traded timber in parts of Asia and the Americas; bark (houpo) and flower buds (xinyi) are used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine.", "Birds take the red arillate seeds; beetles are the typical pollinators of the large, tough flowers.", "Extensive horticultural hybridisation (saucer magnolias, Little Girl series, yellow brooklynensis crosses) for size, colour and hardiness." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Accepted species richness", "typical_range": "about 220-360 in Magnolia, depending on whether former Michelia, Manglietia and related genera are included; Magnoliaceae as a whole over 300 species in two genera", "unit": "accepted species" }, { "quantity": "Mature height in cultivation", "typical_range": "shrub and compact cultivars about 2.5-8 m; many garden trees 8-12 m; Magnolia grandiflora commonly 18-24 m", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Crown spread of southern magnolia", "typical_range": "about 9-12", "unit": "m" }, { "quantity": "Flower diameter", "typical_range": "a few centimetres in star magnolias to about 30 in large Magnolia grandiflora cultivars such as Goliath", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "USDA hardiness of Magnolia grandiflora", "typical_range": "7A-10A", "unit": "USDA zone" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Magnolia scale and verticillium wilt on cultivated plants; chlorosis on high-pH soils.", "Late frost destroying the precocious flowers of Asian deciduous kinds.", "Shallow roots and poor performance on dry, infertile sand or alkaline sites; young plants browsed by deer.", "Wild species threatened by habitat destruction, overharvest for timber and medicine, and low natural regeneration; a 2007 family assessment rated 131 Magnoliaceae taxa as globally threatened." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Kew and most Western horticulture treat Magnoliaceae as Magnolia plus Liriodendron; Chinese floras often still recognise Michelia, Manglietia, Yulania, Houpoea and Oyama as separate genera.", "Native range is disjunct: eastern North America through Central and South America and the Caribbean, versus India through East and Southeast Asia to New Guinea; not native in Europe, Africa or most of Australasia.", "In the U.S. South the unqualified name often means Magnolia grandiflora; in temperate European and North American gardens it often means Magnolia × soulangeana; only a few deciduous species and hybrids are hardy in northern Europe." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the 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Under the Kew one-genus treatment Michelia is a synonym, not a neighbour taxon." }, { "name": "Magnolia virginiana (sweetbay)", "difference": "Smaller creamy flowers, thinner semi-evergreen leaves and wetland sites, versus the thick glossy evergreen leaves with brown undersides and much larger flowers of Magnolia grandiflora." }, { "name": "Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) versus saucer magnolia (Magnolia × soulangeana)", "difference": "Star types open many narrow tepals; saucer types have fewer (about 6-9) broad, cup-shaped tepals." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Magnolia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Magnolia to cover every plant within the genus, including hybrids and cultivars, or a narrower horticultural concept?", "Which authoritative identification resources resolve the relevant species and cultivars, especially when flowers and fruit are unavailable?", "What identity-specific evidence establishes suitable soil conditions, temperature limits and expected mature dimensions?", "Which locally relevant diagnostic resources can distinguish the causes of chlorosis, dieback and failed flowering without relying on symptoms alone?", "What evidence supports pruning, transplanting and propagation methods for the identified magnolia under the actual growing conditions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Magnolia, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a living magnolia, assess its condition and growing context, and determine appropriate care, propagation or protection actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 92 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Magnolia, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 92 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Magnolia from another, and a Magnolia from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a Magnolia sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a Magnolia from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a Magnolia is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Magnolia and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a Magnolia is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Magnolia is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Magnolia is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Magnolia moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a Magnolia passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a Magnolia between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a Magnolia, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Magnolia is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Magnolia is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Magnolia, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Magnolia from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Magnolia from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Magnolia does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Magnolia pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Magnolia judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Magnolia lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Magnolia, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Magnolia hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Magnolia came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Magnolia and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Magnolia is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Magnolia, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Magnolia, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Magnolia is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }