Red tajinaste
| Red tajinaste | |
|---|---|
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| Echium wildpretii on Tenerife | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Boraginaceae |
| Genus: | Echium |
| Species: | E. wildpretii |
| Binomial name | |
| Echium wildpretii | |
Red tajinaste (Echium wildpretii) is a species of flowering plant in the family Boraginaceae. It is an herbaceous biennial plant that grows up to 3 m (10 ft) in height. The species is endemic to the Canary Islands, and is found mainly in the national park surrounding Mount Teide in Tenerife. A similar species, the pink tajinaste, occurs at high altitudes on the island of La Palma. Other common names are tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The Latin specific epithet wildpretii honours the 19th-century Swiss botanist Hermann Josef Wildpret.[2]
Description
[edit]It is a biennial, producing a dense rosette of leaves during the first year, flowers in the second year, and then dies. The red flowers are borne on an erect inflorescence, 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). The plant blooms from late spring to early summer in Tenerife.
Habitat
[edit]The plant grows in the subalpine zone of the ravines of Mount Teide, a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. It requires a lot of sun and is found in arid and dry conditions, but it tolerates frost down to −5 °C (23 °F). As a sub-alpine endemic plant with a narrow climatic niche and small distribution, the species is likely to be negatively impacted by climate change.[3][4]
Inbreeding depression
[edit]Under conditions where water availability was normal there was no indication of inbreeding depression measured as seedling survival.[5] However, when the seedlings were subject to drought stress conditions, inbreeding depression was high (survival about 50.2%).[5]
Uses
[edit]This plant can be found as a garden ornamental but is intolerant of low temperatures, thus some winter protection is required in frost-prone areas. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[6][7] As with most buglosses, it is valued by bee-keepers for its high nectar content.
Close-up of inflorescence
Ssp. trichosiphon from La Palma
References
[edit]- ↑ Bramwell, D.; Bramwell, Z. (2001). Wild flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.). Madrid, Spain: Editorial Rueda SL. ISBN 84-7207-129-4. OCLC 49801255.
- ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 978-1-84533-731-5. OCLC 797981038.
- ↑ Dirnböck, Thomas; Essl, Franz; Rabitsch, Wolfgang (February 2011). "Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high-altitude endemic species under climate change: HABITAT LOSS OF HIGH-ALTITUDE ENDEMICS". Global Change Biology. 17 (2). doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02266.x. S2CID 83936312.
- ↑ Graham, Rachael E.; Reyes-Betancort, J. Alfredo; Chapman, Mark A.; Carine, Mark A. (4 July 2021). "Inter-island differentiation and contrasting patterns of diversity in the iconic Canary Island sub-alpine endemic Echium wildpretii (Boraginaceae)" (PDF). Systematics and Biodiversity. 19 (5): 507–525. doi:10.1080/14772000.2021.1877847. S2CID 233622002.
- 1 2 Sedlacek J, Schmid B, Matthies D, Albrecht M (2012). "Inbreeding depression under drought stress in the rare endemic Echium wildpretii (Boraginaceae) on Tenerife, Canary islands". PLoS One. 7 (10) e47415. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047415. PMC 3480375. PMID 23115645.
- ↑ "Echium wildpretii". www.rhs.org. Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ↑ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 35. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
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