Buddleja 'Podaras7' = Flutterby Flow Mauve Pink

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Buddleja hybrid
Cultivar'Podaras7' = Flutterby Flow Mauve Pink
OriginP. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Buddleja 'Podaras7', selling name Flutterby Flow Mauve Pink, is a sterile hybrid cultivar that Peter Podaras created while at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and patented in 2011. Mauve Pink was derived from a crossing of the hybrid Buddleja davidii × Buddleja davidii.[1]

Description[]

Flutterby Flow Mauve Pink makes a dwarf shrub with a compact, outwardly-spreading habit. Growing to a maximum height and width of 0.6 × 1.2 m, the shrub bears compound terminal and axillary panicles about 9.7 cm long by 4.5 cm wide, each comprising around 160 faintly fragrant pale purple flowers. The flowers emerge in spring and persist until the first frosts of the fall. The opposite, narrowly elliptic are about 7.4 cm long by 1.2 cm wide, pubescent above and below.[1][2]

Cultivation[]

Flutterby Flow Mauve Pink is not known (2012) to be in cultivation beyond the USA. The shrub is reportedly hardy to −29 °C (−20 °F).[2]

Hardiness: USDA zones 5a–10b.[2]

See also[]

Non-invasive Buddleja cultivars

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Buddleja plant named 'Podaras #7'". Google Patents. USPP22110P2. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Buddleia Flutterby Flow® Mauve Pink". Ball Seed: Plant Information. West Chicago, Illinois: Ball Horticultural Company. August 17, 2021. Archived from the original on August 8, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.


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