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Echium sabulicola
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| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Annieta de Jong (Annieta) (34) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-01-30 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Canon G2 |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/160 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-02-12 7:33 |
| Viewed: 456 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This wildflower we find now here in Spain in this time of the year. It gives a lot of color to the landscape.
The colors are various from light till very dark purple.
Name: Echium sabulicola (Pomel)
Family: Boraginaceae (N: Ruwbladigenfamilie, E: Borage Family, D: Rauhblattgewächse)
It is a herbaceous biennial plant and grows up to 70 cm in height and requires plenty of sun and prolong dry periods. It is native to the sandy areas of the coasts of the western Mediterranean region from Spain east to southern France and Italy, including the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily.[1]
The plant requires dry air and exposure to the sun.
The flowers nad its calix forms up to five stems. Zygomorphous corolla of 12–22 mm in width and has five petals. The plant blooms in the end of April and blooms in the autumn months in during its favourable time. |
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its Echium, not Symphytum
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