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Buddleja davidii var. alba
Also called Summer Lilac, Orange Eye, Orange Eye Butterfly Bush, Orange Eye Butterflybush, Buddleia, Chinese Sagewood, David's Buddleja
In Singapore: Purple Butterfly Bush, Butterfly Bush, Summer Lilac, Buddleia, Orange-Eyed Butterfly Bush, 大叶醉鱼草 (Grown in Singapore)
Buddleja davidii var. alba is endemic to central and western China. The plant has also been treated as a form, and a cultivar ('Alba'). However, Anthonius Leeuwenberg sank var. alba and the other five varieties of davidii as synonyms, considering them to be within the natural variation of a species, a treatment also adopted in the Flora of China published in 1996, and is also upheld by both the Plants of the World Online database and the International Dendrology Society's Trees and Shrubs Online website.
Now rare in cultivation, var. alba is still grown in the UK at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey, and at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in Surrey.
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[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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