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Each individual flower is tubular and divided into four spreading lobes about 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) across, the corolla length ranging from around 10 mm in the Asiatics to 3–30 mm in the American species, the wider variation in the latter because some South American species have evolved long red flowers to attract hummingbirds, rather ...
Buddleja americana var. rothschulii Loes. Buddleja americana is the most widespread of all the Buddleja species native to the Americas, its range extending south from Tamaulipas , Mexico , through Central America and much of the West Indies into South America , reaching eastward to Venezuela , westward as far as the Galapagos , and south to ...
Rotheca myricoides or Butterfly Clerodendrum, Butterfly Bush, and (butterfly bush – also a name for Buddleja species) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. [3] [4] It is native to tropical eastern Africa and widely cultivated elsewhere. [3] In cultivation, it is frequently known by one of its synonyms, such as Clerodendrum ...
The flowers range in colour from white, through cream and mauve to purple; the corollas relatively short, at just 4 mm. [1] However, the most striking feature of the flowers is considered to be their scent, judged by some to the best of all the buddlejas, and even bearing comparison with Chanel perfume. Hardiness: USDA zone 8. [3]
Buddleja asiatica is a somewhat tender deciduous shrub native to a vast area of the East Indies, including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Guinea, and the Philippines, growing in open woodland at elevations < 2,800 m either as understorey scrub, or as a small tree. [1]
Buddleja stachyoides is the most widespread member of the genus in South America, endemic to woodland edges, roadsides and riversides in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay. [1] Introduced to the UK as B. australis in 1822, when the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh grew it from seed received from a Russian source, [ 2 ] the plant ...
The genus was named Buddleja after Reverend Adam Buddle, an English botanist. The species name davidii honors the French missionary and explorer in China, Father Armand David, who was the first European to report the shrub. [2] It was found near Yichang by Dr Augustine Henry about 1887 and sent to St Petersburg.
Buddleja alternifolia, known as alternate-leaved butterfly-bush, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family, which is endemic to Gansu, China.A substantial deciduous shrub growing to 4 metres (13 ft) tall and wide, it bears grey-green leaves and graceful pendent racemes of scented lilac flowers in summer.