Echium candicans
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Read about Echium candicans in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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
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Read about Echium candicans in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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