Buddleja acuminata
Buddleja acuminata is a rare shrub endemic to the northern half of Madagascar and eastern Zaire, where it grows along forest edges and in clearings at elevations of 50-800 m. The species was first named and described by Jean [Louis Marie Poiret|Poiret] in 1810.
Description
Buddleja acuminata is a sarmentose, often lianescent, shrub 1.5-3 m in height, with stellate-tomentose branchlets. The opposite dark green leaves have petioles 0.7-2 cm long, the blades variable in shape, from triangular to narrowly ovate, 5-11 cm long by 1.5-6.5 cm wide, long-acuminate at the apex, subcordate to cuneate at the base, all but glabrous above, stellate - tomentose below; the margins range from coarsely dentate at the base, to entire and covered by a thick felt-like indumentum. The inflorescences are white panicles, initially small and congested < 2 cm in diameter at anthesis, enlarging to 15 cm long by 6 cm, the corollas 9-13 mm long.
Cultivation
Buddleja acuminata is not known to be in cultivation.