Butterfly flower.

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    Odif Young Pine

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    Can anyone tell me what this is please.
    butterflyplant.jpg Sorry if it is a bit hard to see.
     
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    The leaves resemble a Salvia, The flowers are not Arizona blue sage however. 20170508_145145.jpg
    The leaves have soft downey hair which gives the plant a silvery look.

    20170508_145111.jpg The flower petal hangs down with 4 male stalks and a female stalk suspended over it.
     
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    I never could find this. It seems like some kind of Gesneriad but that's as close as I could get. What a pretty little thing!
     
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    I don't think it is a gesneriad. We found the plant thrown away, but it had such a pretty flower, so we rescued it. I am worried that it is not hardy enough to survive our winter, so I have kept it in a pot. It may be a Mediterranean plant.
     
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    The bloom made me think about Streptocarpella, for whatever that might be worth.
     
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    Pretty flowers.
    Thanks for looking. I still do not know what it is.
     
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    purpleinopp Young Pine Plants Contributor

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    Could you tell from the way it was discarded if it had been "weeded out" or if it had been cultivated but no longer wanted?

    Abandoning the search for a matching Gesneriad, the bloom bears so much resemblance to various Clerodendrum, especially the 3rd pic for Clerodendrum myricoides:
    http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/verben.htm

    and Rotheca louwalbertsii:
    http://pza.sanbi.org/rotheca-louwalbertsii

    The above genus & species names seem to be floating around synonymously, after looking at various searches.

    What else is Verbenaceae family?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbenaceae

    Apparently that family is in flux with Lamiaceae, into which Clerodendrum and Rotheca have been moved. If it the answer lies within Lamiaceae, but it is not a Clerodendrum or Rotheca, I'm out of time for investigating today.
     
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    Thanks purpleinop for searching so hard, it does look a lot like this, it was a cultivated plant, because it had a dried up rootball in a pot. I have seen these plants lower down on the plain, in France sometimes planted in public areas, if I go to a garden centre down the hill, I will ask them. It certainly does have a resemblance to Clerodendrum myricoides. I think it is drought resistant, but I am not sure if it will resist the cold up here, so until I am sure, I will not plant it outside. I still have not got an exact match, I will get hold of a better camera and try to get some better pictures.
     
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    Please also get a pic of a whole individual, if possible, and some foliage shots. Somebody should recognize. I've had plants that took 4 years to ID but that was because of waiting for blooms. That hurdle was jumped from the beginning with your mystery plant so it's likely somebody would know soon.
     
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    Purpleinopp, I managed to take some better pictures with another camera. To the right of the flower is a bud.
    bf1.jpg

    Here you get a better view of the leaves bf2.jpg

    aargh, this one is not in focus bf3.jpg

    Here is a closeup of the leaves that are left after the flowering bf4.jpg
    Sorry about the pic that is out of focus.
     
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    The plant is a bush Germander or Teucrium fruticans azurea
     
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