La Palma, macronesian plants

[FrazerHenderson]

some photographs from a trip in January 2012

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[Lesley Cox]

I do like the Lotus Frazer. Where does Lotus bertolettii come from? I used to grow that in hanging baskets so they could be brought under cover in the winter. Lovely satiny flowers on silver foliage.

[FrazerHenderson]

I do like the Lotus Frazer. Where does Lotus bertolettii come from? I used to grow that in hanging baskets so they could be brought under cover in the winter. Lovely satiny flowers on silver foliage.

Lotus berthelotti is found in Tenerife.

[Lesley Cox]

Ah, thanks Frazer. That would be why it was a bit tender for me. I saw some in a garden centre the other day. Might try again. Echium wildprettii (naturalized) grows on Otago Peninsula and in some local gardens.

[Maggi Young]

Something for you to be looking out for as The Rock Garden #128 drops on your doormat..... page 3... "The Haraz Mountains, Yemen" by Frazer Henderson.

[Tim Ingram]

Those Lotus are tremendous plants, though I haven't seen that one Frazer shows. For a short time we grew a fascinating species, jacobaeus, which I think may come from the Azores, and had extraordinary brownish flowers looking like small bumble bees hovering amongst the foliage. It was virtually impossible to propagate in any numbers from cuttings and never set seed. (I am now trying some species from North America, more alpine in character!).

[Kees Jan]

Interesting to see E. wildpretii growing on La Palma, I thought it was an endemic species of Tenerife but nice to see it in the subalpine zone of La Palma!

[FrazerHenderson]

Kees

E. wildpretii is found on both Tenerife and La Palma, though on L Palma it is the subsp. trichosiphon. It is only found above about 1600m. I saw this specimen at Caldera de Tabouriente, I did see others but they were not impressive.

Frazer

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