About Buddleja racemosa A.Gray
Buddleja racemosa A.Gray is a small, loosely growing dioecious shrub that reaches 0.3 to 1.5 meters in height. It has greyish-brown cracked bark, and its old branches are persistent. Young branches are cylindrical, covered in dense short hairs, and glandular. These young branches carry small, somewhat leathery leaves that range in shape from ovate-oblong to lanceolate. The leaves measure 3 to 10 centimeters long and 1.5 to 4 centimeters wide, with petioles that are less than 2 centimeters long. The plant's pale yellow inflorescences are 8 to 30 centimeters long, and typically consist of 8 to 12 pairs of small, rounded flower heads that are 0.5 to 0.7 centimeters in diameter. Each flower head holds 6 to 12 individual flowers. The ploidy of this species is 2n = 38. This species is not known to be grown in cultivation.
