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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: Alisdair on May 25, 2018, 07:30:09 AM

Title: An oddity in Portugal ID'd by Fermi as a fasciated Echium
Post by: Alisdair on May 25, 2018, 07:30:09 AM

Pauline Flesseman sent this picture to our MGS facebook page, asking if it was some sort of mutation. I've never seen anything like it. Can anyone identify it for her, please?

Title: Re: An oddity
Post by: Fermi on May 25, 2018, 08:44:09 AM

A Triffid!!!
Or possibly a fasciated Echium, "Viper's Bugloss"
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: An oddity
Post by: Hinterland1 on May 25, 2018, 04:07:28 PM

I think Fermi hit it spot on, a fasciated Echium plantagineum possibly. See this: http://floraofgibraltar.myspecies.info/file-colorboxed/3011 (http://floraofgibraltar.myspecies.info/file-colorboxed/3011)

Title: Re: An oddity in Portugal ID'd by Fermi as a fasciated Echium
Post by: Alisdair on May 26, 2018, 08:09:38 AM

Thanks, Fermi - it looks from the photo and another she sent me as if there are quite a lot of normal Echiums dotted about there too. It's apparently in West Portugal (where E. plantagineum among other species can be found), and I've passed the information on to Pauline.