Echium callithyrsum SEEDS

Echium callithyrsum seeds grow into the Gran Canaria pride or blue bugloss a perennial shrub endemic to the subtropical biome of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, found primarily in the Tamadaba and central pine forest zones. The epithet callithyrsum means ‘beautiful thyrsus’ or ‘beautiful flower cluster’, from Greek kallos (beauty) + thyrsos (thyrsus/flower stalk). Produces spectacular dense cones of vivid blue-violet flowers on branching stems. A Gran Canaria endemic threatened in its native habitat. Family Boraginaceae.

Full sun; well-drained soils; warm subtropical Canarian conditions; frost-tender. Gran Canaria endemic blue Echium.

• ‘Callithyrsum’ = beautiful thyrsus (Greek: kallos = beauty + thyrsos); vivid blue-violet dense flower cones
• Gran Canaria endemic; Tamadaba and central pine forest zones; threatened in wild
• Gran Canaria, Canary Islands subtropical biome; narrow endemic
• Genus Echium ~60 species; Family Boraginaceae
• Full sun; well-drained soils; warm subtropical; frost-tender; Gran Canaria endemic; Family Boraginaceae

Echium callithyrsum is the Gran Canaria pride its name celebrating the beauty of its thyrsoid flower clusters, a threatened endemic of Gran Canaria’s pine forest zone whose vivid blue-violet flowering cones make it one of the most ornamentally outstanding of all Canarian giant Echium species.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.