Wand Butterfly Bush

Buddleja racemosa is a small, lax, dioecious shrub 0.3–1.5 m (1 ft 0 in – 4 ft 11 in) tall, with greyish-brown rimose bark and persistent old branches. The young branches are terete, tomentose and glandular, bearing small subcoriaceous ovate-oblong to lanceolate leaves 3–10 cm (1.2–3.9 in) long by 1.5–4 cm (0.59–1.57 in) wide, with petioles <2 cm (0.79 in) long. The pale yellow inflorescences are 8–30 cm (3.1–11.8 in) long, usually comprising 8 ndash; 12 pairs of small globose heads 0.5–0.7 cm (0.20–0.28 in) in diameter, each head with 6 – 12 flowers. Ploidy: 2n = 38.