Buddleja 'Minpap' = Reve de Papillon
Buddleja hybrid | |
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Reve de Papillon, Longstock Park, UK | |
Cultivar | 'Minpap' = Reve de Papillon™ |
Origin | Pepinieres Minier, Beaufort-en-Vallée, France |
Buddleja 'Minpap', selling name Reve de Papillon™, is a hybrid cultivar raised from an openly-pollinated 'Royal Red' by Olivier Pallusiere at the Pepinieres Minier nursery, Beaufort-en-Vallée, France.[1] Reve de Papillon featured in the Buddleja trials held by the Royal Horticultural Society from 2008 to 2010, but was unplaced in the public popularity poll.
Description
Reve de Papillon makes a broad, bushy shrub, 1.5 × 2.5 m, with arching branches bearing long, broad, terminal panicles of purplish-pink flowers complemented by grey-green foliage.[1]
Cultivation
Reve de Papillon has become widely established in western Europe, including the UK, where a specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection at Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge, Hampshire.[2] It is not known to have been introduced to North America.