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Buddleja madagascariensis

Botanic Family

Scrophulariaceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

• Sevafotsy
• Seva
• Sevalaha
• Jiang guo zui yu cao (Pinyin)
• Madagascar Buddleia
• Butterfly Bush
• Smoke Bush

Geographical Habitats

• Madagascar

Natural Habitats

• Forest margins
• jungle. Medicinal uses. Leaves a soap substitute

Flowering Times

• Autumn-spring Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec (Madagascar)

Fruiting Times

• Nov (Madagascar)

Evergreen scandent sometimes twining shrub with woolly branches. Wrinkled leaves glabrous or sparsely tomentulose above, lanate-tomentose whitish or ferrugineus beneath to 110mm x 45mm. Terminal panicles, thyrses or racemes to 250mm long with bracts to 15mm long, 12mm pale yellow, salmon-pink to orange-yellow sweet-scented flowers, calyx to 3mm long tomentose outside with lobes 0.5mm long, corolla tube to 10 mm, lobes to 4mm, white-tomentose outside. White ripening purple-blue or orange berry to 5mm diameter.

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• A.H.S. 1997
• P & R 1997
• FOC
• FONZ
• RHS A-Z
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana