Blue Butterfly Bush Flower
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Blue Butterfly Bush Flower
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Clerodendrum ugandense; commonly known as Blue Butterfly Bush or blue glorybower, is an open and sprawling evergreen shrub that gets up to 10 ft (3 m) tall and wide, but is easily kept much smaller. It has opposite leaves that are egg shaped, strongly toothed and about 3-4 in (7.6-10 cm) long. The inflorescences, borne at the ends of long arching branches, are panicles 4-10 in (10-25.4 cm) long composed of individual flowers about 1 in (2.5 cm) long, each with three pale blue lobes and one violet blue lobe. The flowers look like little butterflies in two different shades of blue and are produced more or less continuously throughout the summer and fall.Blue Buttefly Bush occurs in Kenya and Uganda in East Africa.The genus name comes from the Greek: dendron, tree; and kleros, chance or fate or Clergy.
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Wildlife ONE A DAY
11/24/2020
Global Flowers Photography
07/03/2016
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July 2nd, 2016
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