Buddleja davidii var. alba

Buddleja davidii var. alba is endemic to central and western China.[1] The plant has also been treated as a form, and a cultivar ('Alba').[2] However, Anthonius Leeuwenberg sank var. alba and the other five varieties of davidii as synonyms,[3] considering them to be within the natural variation of a species, a treatment also adopted in the Flora of China published in 1996.[4]

Buddleja davidii var. alba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. davidii
Variety:
B. d. var. alba
Trinomial name
Buddleja davidii var. alba
Rehder & E. H. Wilson

Description

Buddleja davidii var. alba is distinguished by its inflorescences of white flowers with yellow eyes, considered inferior to many of the white cultivars now in commerce, and narrower leaves.[2]

Cultivation

Now rare in cultivation, var. alba is still grown in the UK at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey, and at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in Surrey.

Suppliers

There is one nursery in the UK marketing the shrub, listed in the RHS Plantfinder .

References
  1. Bean, W. J. (1917). Trees and shrubs hardy in Great Britain, 7th edition. Murray, London.
  2. Hatch, L. (2007) Cultivars of Woody Plants Volume I (A-G) 2007 Edition. TCR Press Horticultural PDF. books.
  3. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1979). The Loganiaceae of Africa XVIII Buddleja L. II. Revision of the African and Asiatic species. H. Veenman & Zonen B. V., Wageningen, Nederland
  4. Li, P-T. & Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1996). Loganiaceae, in Wu, Z. & Raven, P. (eds) Flora of China, Vol. 15, p. 335. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, USA. ISBN 978-0915279371 online at www.efloras.org


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