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Internal ID UUID644018f5adf4c427264738
Scientific name Echium wildpretii
Authority H.Pearson ex Hook.f.
First published in Bot. Mag. 128: t. 7847 (1902)

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Echium wildpretii is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae, endemic to the Canary Islands. Commonly known as tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss, it is a biennial plant that grows up to 3 m (10 ft) in height. It produces a dense rosette of leaves during the first year, flowers in the second year, and then dies. The red flowers are borne on an erect inflorescence, 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). It grows in the subalpine zone of the ravines of Mount Teide, a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain, and requires a lot of sun and is found in arid and dry conditions, but it tolerates frost down to −5 °C (23 °F). It is used as a garden ornamental, but requires some winter protection in frost-prone areas, and is favoured by bee-keepers for its high nectar content.

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Language Common/alternative name
Spanish tajinaste rojo
Arabic زهرة الأفعى الكنارية
Czech hadinec teidský
German wildprets natternkopf
Persian گل گاوزبان زیبایوحشی
Finnish timanttitorni
Finnish kuningatarneidonkieli
French tajinaste
French viperine de tenerife
French vipérine de ténérife
Upper Sorbian wildpretowa hrimanka
Japanese エキウム・ウィルドプレティー
Japanese エキウム・ウィルドプレッティ
Georgian ვილდპრეტის ძირწითელა
Macedonian Вилдпретова волчја опашка
Macedonian Вилдпретово воловско јазиче
Russian Синяк Вильдпрета
Russian Синяк Вильдпретта
Swedish jättesnokört
Swedish jätteslokört
Chinese 野蓝蓟
Chinese 野藍薊
Chinese 寶石塔

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Echium wildpretii subsp. trichosiphon (Svent.) Bramwell Lagascalia 2: 78 (1972)

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000663158
Tropicos 100328859
INPN 839885
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:115955-1
The Plant List kew-2784435
Missouri Botanical Garden 292969
Open Tree Of Life 441794
Observations.org 150494
NCBI Taxonomy 113456
IPNI 115955-1
iNaturalist 147196
GBIF 7295503
Freebase /m/09cbfy
Elurikkus 584344
USDA GRIN 14880
Wikipedia Echium_wildpretii

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Mating strategies of Vitex negundo L. var. heterophylla (Franch.) Rehder (Lamiaceae): A mixed mating system with inbreeding depression Zhang Q, Zhang J, Sun X, Wang F, Wang R, Wang H, Zheng P Ecol Evol 26-Feb-2024
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The Ability of Bumblebees Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to Detect Floral Humidity is Dependent Upon Environmental Humidity Harrison AS, Rands SA Environ Entomol 28-Jul-2022
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doi:10.1093/ee/nvac049
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The complete plastome of Echium plantagineum L. (Boraginaceae), the first chloroplast genome belonging to the Echium genus Carvalho Leonardo I, Barreto Crespo MT, Capelo J, Bustos Gaspar F Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 24-Jun-2022
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doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2087559
PMID:35783061
Evolution and conservation genetics of an insular hemiparasitic plant lineage at the limit of survival: the case of Thesium sect. Kunkeliella in the Canary Islands Rodríguez‐Rodríguez P, Fernández de Castro AG, Pérez de Paz PL, Curbelo L, Palomares Á, Mesa R, Acevedo A, Sosa PA Am J Bot 15-Mar-2022
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Impact of Biotic and Abiotic Stressors on Managed and Feral Bees Belsky J, Joshi NK Insects 01-Aug-2019
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doi:10.3390/insects10080233
PMID:31374933
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PMID:30886227
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PMID:30008511
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PMID:29438290
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PMID:28818045
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doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.01934
PMID:28066486
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PMCID:PMC5001862
doi:10.3732/apps.1600050
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