Cultivar 'Orpheus' | ||
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Origin The Lavender Garden, Tetbury, England Similar Buddleja davidii 'Blue Hori, Buddleja davidii 'Monite, Buddleja 'Lochinch', Buddleja × weyeriana 'Sungold', Buddleja davidii 'Mongo | ||
Buddleja davidii 'Orpheus' is a cultivar raised by The Lavender Garden, Tetbury, UK, and introduced to commerce in 2002. [1]
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Description
'Orpheus' is an upright shrub, growing to a height of 2 m and distinguished by its 15–20 m long panicles of deep-blue flowers, with white eye and orange throat.
Cultivation
'Orpheus' is rare in cultivation, and not known beyond the UK. A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.
References
Buddleja davidii 'Orpheus' Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA