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Butterfly bush
16 November 2024
Buddleja davidii
93% certain
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae
- Origin
- China
- Bloom season
- Midsummer to autumn
- Colors
- purple, pink, white
- Habitat
- Waste ground, railway banks, and sunny borders
- Symbolism
- Attraction, and a summer that will not sit still
Long cones of tiny four-lobed florets that smell of honey, covered in butterflies on a still afternoon.
Care. Cut hard in spring; it flowers on new wood and sulks in wet, heavy soil.
A note. In Britain it colonised bomb sites after the war, which is why some people still call it the bombsite plant.
Or perhaps
- Duranta — 43%
- Pentas — 3%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Nov 16, 2024, 5:16 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 2.22mm f/2.2
- Focal length
- 2.2mm
- Aperture
- f/2.2
- Shutter
- 1/261s
- ISO
- 40
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6048° N, 74.0556° W
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