Pride of Madeira
Echium candicans L.f.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Boraginaceae
Formerly Argyrexias candicans, Echium brachyanthum, Echium cynoglossoides, Echium densiflorum, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. MadeiraKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 2.5 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Echium candicans (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.