Buddleja diffusa
Species of plant
Buddleja diffusa is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is endemic to central Peru and northern Argentina, growing on dry hillsides above rivers and creeks at altitudes of 1000, 1900 m; it was first described and named by Ruiz and Pavon in 1798.
01Description
Buddleja diffusa is a dioecious, scrambling, vine-like shrub 1, 3.5 m high, with yellowish bark. The young branches are quadrangular, the younger growth covered with a white to buff tomentum. The sessile, membranaceous ovate or elliptic leaves 3, 14 cm long by 2, 8 cm wide, glabrescent above, tomentose below. The yellow inflorescences are 15, 30 cm long, with one or two orders of branches; the flowers borne in capitate cymules, each 0.6, 1 cm diameter, with 9, 15 flowers; the corolla tubes are 3, 3.5 mm long.
02Cultivation
The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- Buddleja diffusa - Ruiz Lopez, H., Pavon, J., Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, vol. 1 Plates 1-152 (1798-1802) - 187339 (crop).jpg by Hipólito Ruiz López & José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Public domain
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