Echium candicans

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Echium candicans. Linn. f. (E. fastuosum, Jacq. f., not Ait. E. truncatum, Hort.). Forms a bush several feet high, but flowers at 3 ft., the lvs. and sts. white-hairy: branches thick, leafy toward the tips: lvs. lanceolate, the upper ones smaller, crowded and narrower: panicles much looser than the spikes of /'.' fastuosum; ns. sessile, pale blue, the buds reddish purple, the pink stamens protruding. Madeira, Canaries, on mountains.— The fls. are said sometimes to be streaked with white or all white. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

syn. Echium fastuosum, Ait., not Jacq. This has darker blue fls. in a dense spike and perhaps less hoary foliage than E. candicans, the protruding filaments nearly white (said by some to be white in E. candicans). Coast, Canaries. R.H. 1876:10. Gn. 10:546. G.C. III. 33:328. G.W. 15, p. 356. — E. fastuosum. has dark blue, 5-lobed fls. about ! ...in. across, in spikes 6 in. long and 2 in. wide, perhaps as many as 200 fls. in a spike. Great masses of stamens are thrust out and add to the interest, and the young fl.-buds look like pink 5-pointed stars. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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