Echium webbii SEEDS

Echium webbii seeds grow into Webb’s echium a perennial shrub endemic to the subtropical biome of La Palma, Canary Islands, growing on volcanic rocky slopes and scrub. Named after Philip Barker Webb (17931854), English botanist who conducted extensive surveys of the Canary Islands flora and co-authored the monumental Histoire Naturelle des les Canaries the definitive 19th-century floristic account of the Canary Islands. A La Palma endemic producing blue-purple flowers. Family Boraginaceae.

Full sun; well-drained, volcanic rocky soils; warm subtropical Canarian conditions; frost-tender.

• Named after Philip Barker Webb (17931854, English botanist, co-author Histoire Naturelle des les Canaries)
• La Palma endemic; volcanic rocky slopes and scrub; blue-purple flowers; shrubby perennial
• La Palma, Canary Islands subtropical biome; La Palma volcanic island endemic
• Genus Echium ~60 species; Family Boraginaceae
• Full sun; volcanic soils; warm subtropical; frost-tender; La Palma endemic; Family Boraginaceae

Echium webbii honours Philip Barker Webb the English botanist who spent years on the Canary Islands and produced the definitive 19th-century flora of the archipelago, his name preserved in this La Palma endemic that grows on the same volcanic slopes where Webb himself collected, the island famous for its massive Cumbre Vieja eruption and its extraordinary endemic flora.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.