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Buddleja asiatica

Syn. Buddleja arfakensis

IUCN Red List Least Concern (LC)

Local name

  • Asian Butterfly Bush (English)
  • Bhati/Dhura (Hindi)
  • Karakaane (Kannada)

Shrub type

Evergreen Deciduous
Family: Scrophulariaceae
5m

Indicated uses

Medicinal Edible Ornamental Avenue Other

Flowering & fruiting

Flowering Fruiting

Key characters

Buddleja asiatica bark

Bark

Bark is greyish-brown, thin, and smooth, becoming slightly fissured on older stems with densely hairy young branchlets.

Buddleja asiatica leaves

Leaves

Leaves are nearly stalkless, 3-9 cm long, lance-shaped, pointed to tapering, entire to minutely toothed, hairless above, woolly beneath; tomentum star-shaped, grey.

Buddleja asiatica flower

Flower

Flowers are nearly stalkless, 6-9 mm long, white, fragrant, in dense, continuous spikes at branch-ends and in leaf-axils. Bracts are 2.5 mm long, lance-shaped, tapering, star-shaped-velvet-hairy. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, 2.5 mm long; sepals ovate, blunt.

Buddleja asiatica fruit / seeds

Fruit / Seeds

Fruit is a small, ovoid or subglobose two-valved capsule about 3–5 mm long, turning brown when ripe.

Buddleja asiatica

Did you know?

The genus Buddleja was named in honor of the 18th-century English botanist and rector, Reverend Adam Buddle.

Distribution

World map showing distribution

Central & S. China to Tropical Asia and Marianas.