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| 20th June 2008, Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. | Photo: © RWD |
| A large shrub which grows exhuberantly. |
| 20th June 2008, Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. | Photo: © RWD |
| Full of golf-ball-sized globular orange flowers. |
| 20th June 2008, Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. | Photo: © RWD |
| the flowers grow at the ends of long stalks. Stalks are in opposing pairs up the branch. |
| 20th June 2008, Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. | Photo: © RWD |
| Some stalks grow 'through' the globular flowers. |
| 4th July 2010, London. | Photo: © Philip Draper |
| Each globe is covered in a few dozen closely-packed orange tubular flowers radiating from a central (unseen) centre. Not the runted flower un-developed by the end of the season (top right). |
| 4th July 2010, London. | Photo: © Philip Draper |
| Each tubular flower ends in four short stubby petals. Many inwardly directed orange hairs partially impede access to the deeper recesses of the flower. There is a green ovary. The flowers have a waxy look and feel. |
| 20th June 2008, Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. | Photo: © RWD |
| The leaves are mid-green, large, very wrinkley and lanceolate in shape. |
| 4th July 2010, London. | Photo: © Philip Draper |
| The underside of the leaves is a much lighter green, almost white. |
| 4th July 2010, London. | Photo: © Philip Draper |
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Hybridises with: Butterfly-Bush producing Weyer's Butterfly-Bush (buddleja × weyeriana), a Butterfly-Bush type plant with orange-coloured flowers that are not as compactly spherical as are those of the Orange-Ball-Tree.
Some similarities to : Slight similarity to: some orange-coloured garden varieties of Butterfly Bush can look vaguely similar, but usually have a less-compact and sloppily-formed larger rounded heads. Distinguishing Feature : The compact orange spherical flower-heads containing numerous waxy-looking flowers. This plant is more likely to be found growing in peoples gardens, but as shown here in Peel it is growing on the south-facing grassy slopes above Peel Harbour. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |

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