Buddleja globosa

The orange-ball-tree or orange ball buddleja is in the Scrophulariaceae family and is native to Chile and Argentina. It is a vigorous shrub reaching up to 5 m in height.

• Young branches are nearly quadrangular (but with rounded corners) in cross-section, with a dense covering of hairs.
• Leaves are opposite, lanceolate, cessile, 5–15 cm long by 2–6 cm wide, turning 180° each whorl, covered with woolly hairs beneath when young.
• Flowers appear to be hermaphrodites (having both male and female parts on same flower), but only anthers or pistils are functional on a single plant; flowers form in globose, orange heads, one of them terminal and up to 6 projecting heads, 1.2–2.8 cm in diameter, each with 30–50 flowers.
• Bark is tan, developing furrows with age.