Echium

Echium bethencourtianum Exclusive
150 (250)cm, a rarely cultivated woody shrub from coastal areas in northern La Palma.

Echium candicans 'San Bruno Pink' (Pink Pride of Madeira) - Long, gray-green leaves are held at the ends of the branches on this evergreen shrub that can grow rapidly to 4 to 6 feet tall by as wide.

Echium vulgare

Nombres relacionados: Boraginaceae (familia), Borraxa brava (gallego y/o portugués), Buglosa (castellano), Common vipersbugloss (inglés), Cul de pors (catalán), Echium pustulatum (sinónimo), Natterkopf (alemán), ...

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Echium russicum
Echium russicum ...

Echium grows best with full sun, and thrives in areas with hot summers. Species are drought tolerant, but cannot withstand temperatures below 30ºF. Where hardy, grow Echium in an annual, mixed, or herbaceous border.

Echium violaceum L. (misapplied)
Common Names
blue devil, blue echium, blue thistle, blue weed, blueweed, common viper's bugloss, common vipersbugloss, viper's bugloss ...

Viper's Bugloss (Blueweed)
Echium vulgare
The flowers open, one or two at a time, on curled branches. The leaves and stems are bristly with hairs. Viper's bugloss was introduced from Europe in colonial times.

Tower of Jewels
Scientific Name: Echium wildpretii H. W. Pearson ex Hook. f.
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Family: Boraginaceae ...

Index- plants in this Family
Boraginaceae / Borage Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
Viper's Bugloss is also known as Common Vipersbugloss. ...

Echium vulgare (Boriginaceae) -- These relatives of Forget-me-nots bloom in late summer. (Photographed on St. Joseph's Island, Canada) ...

Echium fastuosum, Echium candicans
Family: Boraginaceae
Pride of Madeira
Origin: Madeira ...

Echium vulgare (Blueweed, Viper's Bugloss)
Exacum affine (Persian Violet, German Violet)
Limonium sinuatum (Statice, Sea-Pink, Sea-Lavender) ...

Echium vulgare Echium vulgare is most widely known, though there are about 60 additional species.
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Echium is a good example of "island woodiness" - woody, more or less tree-like forms in otherwise herbaceous groups that evolve on islands, ...

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Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans)
Actually from Madeira, this plant produces wonderful spikes of blue-purple flowers along the coast in poor soil and with practically no extra water. Bees love it.
NextCanna 'Tropicanna' ...

Blueweed [English]: Echium vulgare
Blueweed [English]: Helianthus ciliaris
Blueweed [English]: Echium simplex
Blueweed [English]: Echium plantagineum
Blueweed Sunflower [English]: Helianthus ciliaris
Bluewings [English]: Torenia fournieri ...

Blue echium Echium vulgare L. (Category 1)
Blue passion flower Passiflora caerulea L. (Category 1)
Brazilian pepper tree Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi Mult categories
Brazilian guava Psidium guineense Sw. (Category 3) ...

Echium - skin irritant
Eddo - see Colocasia esculenta
Elder - see Sambucus
Epipremnum (Devil's ivy) - poisonous; skin & eye irritant
Euonymus (Spindle tree) - somewhat poisonous ...

It is represented in Britain by bugloss (Echium) (fig. 1), comfrey (Symphytum), Myosotis, hounds-tongue (Cynoglossum) (fig. 2), and other genera, while borage (Borago officinalis) (fig. 3) occurs as a garden escape in waste ground.

Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans)
Pride of Trinidad and Tobago (Warszewiczia coccinea)
Primrose Witch Hazel (Hamamelis x intermedia 'Primavera')
Primula 'Pacific Giant'
Primula denticulata
Primula japonica
Primula malacoides
Primula obconica ...

alkaloids: Stinking willie (Senecio jacobea), common groundsel (S. vulgaris), fiddleneck and tarweed (Amsinckia spp), rattlebox (Crotalaria), Hound's tongue (Cynoglossum officinale), heliotropum (Heliotropium spp) and salivation Jane (Echium ...

Its generic name Echium is derived from Echis, a viper. Parkinson says of it: 'the water distilled in glasses or the roote itself taken is good against the passions and tremblings of the heart as also against swoonings, sadness and melancholy.

means tongue of the bull (lisan [Ù"سان] tongue and thaur [Ø"ور] bull), obviously in reference to the thick, uneven leaves. Another Arabic name, himhim [حمحم] refers not only to borage but also to related plants like bugloss (Echium ) and ...

But just what beauty this exclamation mark of a plant can bring to vacant lots I learned one summer, when a recently bulldozed building site changed naturally into a wildflower garden as yellow mulleins, blue viper's bugloss (Echium vulgare) and ...

See also: May, Bugloss, Green, Medic, Borage