Cultivar 'Ice Chip' | ||
Origin Sandhills Research Station, Jackson Springs, NC, USA. | ||
Buddleja 'Ice Chip' (Lo & Behold series; selling name White Chip in Europe) is a sterile hybrid cultivar derived from the crossing of 'Blue Chip' and cultivar no. NC2002-12 ('White Ball' × Nanho Purple), by Dr Dennis Werner and Layne Snelling at the Sandhills Research Station [1], Jackson Springs, North Carolina, in 2006 and released by NCSU in 2011.
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Description
'Ice Chip' is possibly the world's first groundcover buddleja, growing outwards to more than double its diminutive height of 0.5 m. The shrub has a dense, rounded structure owing to the development of numerous lateral branches. The fragrant inflorescences are small terminal panicles, 8 cm in length, comprising < 130 white flowers, greyish-yellow within the corolla tube. The anthers either absent or malformed and thus incapable of pollination, while the flowers are also female-sterile so produce no seeds. The mature leaves are elliptic, 7.5 cm long by 2.5 cm wide, green above and grey-green below.
Cultivation
'Ice Chip' is marketed in the USA by Proven Winners LLC, Illinois; it has been introduced to Europe (2013) and marketed as 'White Chip'. USDA zones 5–7.