Wand Butterflybush

Description

B. racemosa is a small, lax, dioecious shrub 0.3 - 1.5 m 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 long by 1.5 - 4 cm wide, with petioles <2 cm long. The pale yellow inflorescences are 8 - 30 cm long, usually comprising 8 - 12 pairs of small globose heads 0.5 - 0.7 cm in diameter, each head with 6 - 12 flowers. Ploidy: 2n = 38.