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Tower Of Jewels

Echium virescens

Tower Of Jewels
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Javier martin assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Boraginaceae (Borage family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Canary Is. (Tenerife)
Climate
subtropical

About

Echium virescens is a flowering plant in the genus Echium. It is endemic to the island of Tenerife, mainly in Macizo de Anaga and the Orotava Valley. It grows in forests and on lower south slopes of the island.

Uses

This plant is used in gardens. The plant are used for beekeeping, as it is rich in pollen and nectar.

Other Echium plants

Echium aculeatum · Echium albicans · Echium amoenum · Sand Bugloss · Echium boissieri · Echium brevirame · Pride of Madeira · Cretan viper's bugloss · Echium horridum · Echium hypertropicum · Italian viper's bugloss · Judean Viper's Bugloss

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echium virescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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