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Cynoglossum amabile
Also called Chinese Forget Me Not, Chinese Hound's Toungue, Purple Hounds Tongue
Chinese hound's tongue is a hardy annual (sometimes biennial) from the borage family, grown for its sky-blue, forget-me-not-like flowers in late summer. It is easy from seed sown in place, and it is not a true forget-me-not, though it is closely related to them.
Cynoglossum amabile, the Chinese hound's tongue or Chinese forget-me-not, is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, native to Asia. A hardy annual growing to 50 cm (20 in), it has hairy leaves and cymes of sky-blue flowers in late summer. This plant, closely related to the common forget-me-not of temperate gardens (Myosotis sylvatica), is also grown as an ornamental. In cultivation in the UK it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. (confirmed 2017).
The Latin specific epithet amabile means "lovely".
Cynoglossum amabile contains tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids such as amabiline.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
