Buddleja 'Podaras11' = Flutterby Lavender


Buddleja hybrid
Cultivar 'Podaras11' = Flutterby Lavender
Origin P. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Buddleja 'Podaras11', selling name Flutterby Lavender, is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised by Peter Podaras whilst at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and patented in 2011. Flutterby Lavender was derived from the crossing Buddleja alternifolia × Buddleja davidii.[1]

Description

Flutterby Lavender makes a small shrub with a broad, outwardly-spreading habit creating a wide, inverted triangle shape. Growing to a maximum of 1.2 × 1.2 m, the shrub bears compound terminal and axillary panicles about 7.5 cm long by 4.6 cm wide, comprising around 130 faintly fragrant pale-violet flowers. The flowers emerge in spring and persist until the first frosts of the fall. The opposite, elliptic to oblanceolate leaves are about 8 cm long by 3 cm wide, lanulose above and below.[2] [3][4]

Cultivation

The shrub is reputedly hardy to −29° C.[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=PP22067.PN.&OS=PN/PP22067&RS=PN/PP22067
  2. ↑ http://www.ballhort.com/Nursery/plant_info.aspx?phid=011806006002843
  3. ↑ United States Patent Office.(2011). United States Patent no. PP22,067, Buddleja plant named 'Podaras#11'.
  4. ↑ http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=PP22067.PN.&OS=PN/PP22067&RS=PN/PP22067
  5. ↑ http://www.ballhort.com/Nursery/plant_info.aspx?phid=011806006002843