General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 8a -12.2 °C (10 °F) to -9.4 °C (15 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 6 to 12 feet
Plant Spread: 2 to 3 feet
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Taproot
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Hummingbirds
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem

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Common names
  • Tree Echium
  • Tower of Jewels
  • Pride of Tenerife
  • Tajinaste
  • Taginaste
  • Giant Viper's bugloss
  • Pine echium

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Location: Jardin Georges Delaselle    Ile de Batz, Brittany, France
Date: 2023-08-29
Le Jardin Georges Delaselle   Ile de Batz   France

Date: 2017-05-22

Date: 2017-05-22
Location: Jardin Exotique & Botanique  Roscoff, Brittany, France
Date: 2023-08-29
Location: Jardin Botanique Kerdalo
Date: 2017-05-30
Location: Canford Cliffs, Poole, ENGLAND
Date: 4th May 2020
Location: The garden at Sanabria
Date: 2014-07-27
Tiny seeds the size of pin heads, from which this enormous plant
Location: Jardin Botanique Kerdalo
Date: 2017-05-30
Location: My Garden Crescent City, California
Date: 4000-02-13
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-04-11
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-04-11
Location: Garden
Date: 2020-05-29
An amazing flower in my tropical garden bees adore it.
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: My Property Sunset Zone 23 Sub-Tropical Southern California
Date: 2012-05-01
Location: The garden at Sanabria
Date: 2014-06-24
Grown from seed, took three years to flower, but about four to si
Location: The garden at Sanabria
Date: 2014-06-24
Planted them up and down the driveway beds, gives nice focus poin
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-04-11
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-04-11
Location: Garden
Date: 2020-05-29
If you look closely you can see the buzzing bees
Location: The garden at Sanabria
Date: 2014-09-05
From pin head seeds to three inche seedlings in five weeks! Echiu
Location: My Property Sunset Zone 23 Fallbrook California
Date: 2013-03-01
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Location: My Property Sunset Zone 23 Sub-Tropical Southern California
Date: 2012-05-01
Location: Botanical Garden of Barcelona
Date: 2019-04-22
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2007-12-05
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Date: July
credit: Frank Wouters
Location: Crescent City, California
Date: 2016-04-11
Location: Salmon Harbor / Smith River, California
Date: 4000-06-03
Discussion Threads about this plant
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Echium by jmorth May 15, 2014 12:13 AM 6
Duplicate by DaylilySLP Jul 15, 2019 10:34 AM 3

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