Pininana
Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- —
Boraginaceae
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsWikipedia lists it as toxic to horses (25 Oct 2026)
PeopleNo safety information yet
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Biennial or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canary Is. (NE. La Palma)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Welsh
- gwiberlys mawr
- American English
- pine echium
- Spanish
- Pininana
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- 3D model: Echium pininana (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.