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Echium candicans - Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Flowers; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Flower - Click to enlarge!

Flower; Jardí Botànic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Stem section - Click to enlarge!

Stem section; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Echium candicans - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Jardí Botànic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 7/2011 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 751
Date of entry: 17.03.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Pride Of Madeira

German: Madeira-Natternkopf

Portuguese: Massaroco

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Lamiales (196)

        Family: Boraginaceae (36)(family description)

          Genus: Echium (9)

            Epithet: candicans L. f. (1)

candicans => white

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: blue, purple, white

External links

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