Clerodendrum ugandense

PlantFiles: Butterfly Bush, Oxford Bush, Cambridge Bush
Rotheca myricoides 'Ugandense'

Family: Verbenaceae (ver-be-NAY-see-ee) (Info)
Genus: Rotheca (roth-EE-kuh) (Info)
Species: myricoides (mir-ih-KOY-deez) (Info)
Cultivar: Ugandense
Synonym:Clerodendrum myricoides
Synonym:Clerodendrum ugandense
Clerodendrum ugandense Prain., ca. 400 species, tropical and warm areas, Verbenaceae, butterfly bush, or Ugandan clerodendrum: Sprawling shrub, to 3.5 m (10 tall). Leaves opposite, glabrous, coarsely toothed, elliptic to obovate, to 10 cm (4½") long. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers are ca. 2.5 cm (1") across, calyx red; petals are united at the base into a short tube, four wide light blue petal limbs and one wide violet-blue petal limb. The six showy stamens have long arching purple filaments and blue anthers. Native to tropical Africa. (Hillsborough County; B95-809; Cindy S. Kamelhair). (Bailey Staff 1976, Broschat & Merrow 1991 Everett 1981, Huxley 1992).