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Buddleja davidii var. veitchiana
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. veitchiana is a variety of the butterfly bush, a shrub grown for its dense lavender-blue flower panicles with orange eyes. It is now rare in cultivation and not widely sold, so it is usually found only in collections; care follows the common butterfly bush.
Buddleja davidii var. veitchiana was collected in Hubei and introduced to cultivation by E. H. Wilson; it was named after the British nurseryman and horticulturist James Veitch by Rehder. The taxonomy of the plant and the other five B. davidii varieties has been challenged in recent years. Leeuwenberg sank them all as synonyms, considering them to be within the natural variation of a species, a treatment adopted in the Flora of China published in 1996, and also upheld by both the Plants of the World Online database and the International Dendrology Society's Trees and Shrubs Online website.
Var. veitchiana was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's First Class Certificate (FCC) in 1902.
Now rare in cultivation, a specimen is still grown in the UK, at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey; another is held by the University of Copenhagen's Botanic Garden. The shrub does not appear to remain in commerce in the UK, and was last listed in the RHS Plantfinder in 2010.
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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]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buddleja davidii var. veitchiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
