Cultivar 'Podaras#1' = Flutterby Grande Vanilla Origin P. Podaras, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA | ||
Buddleja 'Podaras1', selling name = Flutterby Grande Vanilla, is a sterile hybrid cultivar raised by Peter Podaras whilst at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and patented in 2011. Flutterby Grande Vanilla is the result of a crossing of B. × weyeriana 'Honeycomb' × B. davidii. [1]
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Description
Flutterby Grande Vanilla has an upright and spreading habit, growing to 1.8 × 1.8 m, with compound terminal and axillary conical panicles, < 11 cm long by 6 cm wide, comprising around 525 faintly fragrant creamy white flowers with orange eyes. The opposite, narrowly elliptic leaves are about 15 cm long by 2.5 cm wide, with lanulose surfaces. [2] [3]
Cultivation
Flutterby Grande Vanilla is not known (2012) to be in cultivation beyond the USA. The shrub is reputedly hardy to - 29° C.[4]