What's this plant?
Posted on May 14th, 2007 by Craig Newmark
UPDATE: Echium Fastuosum, related to Pride of Madeira, I guess there are variations. could even be Echium pininana
UPDATE 2: even better info "Echium pininana – Single tall stalk – blueish to puple spires from 6 to 18 feet tall. "
Note purple flowers up top.
In my backyard, kinda prehistoric, ain't it?
I think this is a Pride of Madeira. Nice looking specimen! They are hardy and drought tolerant.
I'm not really a flower guy, but I think we have a few of those in our yard.
Here's one silhouetted by the tonight's overcast sky – http://www.komar.org/faq/rainbows/2007_05_14_flower1.jpg … and I got my son Kyle to pose for this second picture – http://www.komar.org/faq/rainbows/2007_05_14_flower2.jpg
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Looks sort of like the Crystalline Entity.
That looks like an echium to me, the 'tower of jewels' variety, but I call them oompa loompa plants!
seems like there should be a brontosaurus head rising above the vegetation.
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