Type of Flowers
Butterfly:
A native blossom of South Africa.Family,lamiaceae (fomerly Verbenaceae) The flowers give off inwards free panicles (clusters) every minute inflorescenses borne at the ends of long, arching branches. Each blossom is virtually 1" (2.5cm) long too composed of v lobed petals, of which iv are pale blueish too i violet-blue. There are vi showy stamens made upwards of vi long arching pale blueish filaments too night blueish anthers. It blooms continuously throughout summertime too fall. In the tropics, it blooms the whole yr through. Each blossom lasts exclusively a day. The evergreen leaves are bluish-green, opposite, elliptical too strongly toothed, virtually 7-10cm long.The flowers which are nectar-rich attract a lot of butterflies too carpentar bees, wasps too fifty-fifty the occasional humming birds. They only can't halt loving them.
It has many mutual names:
English : Blue Glory Bower, Blue Butterfly Flower, Clerodendron, Blue Butterfly Wings, Butterfly
Bush, Oxford Bush, Cambridge Bush
Chinese : 紫蝶花 (zi expire hua) pregnant Purple Butterfly Flower.
