Echium candicans is a perennial plant native to the Madeira Islands (Eastern Atlantic, off the coast of Morocco), a very wonderful plant with large, dense spikes of beautiful blue-purple flowers that attract many flower bees. It is known as the pride of Madeira. The Latin specific epithet candicans means "shining white", and the name comes from the colour of the leaves of this plant.
It is not very common in Japan yet, but I was interested in its wonderful appearance and started growing seedlings, which often died after two years of flowering, and I was puzzled at first because the seeds were hard to find, but often many germinated from spilt seeds, which I potted up and grew into seedlings, I have been enjoying the flowers every year for a long time.
The plant that produced so many flower spikes this year grew from a spill next to the entrance to the garden, and some of the branches and leaves were cut off because they were in the way of traffic. Bees and bumblebees are immediately coming to the flowers and sucking the nectar. The next few weeks will be the best time to see the flowers.
Showtime begins！
エキウムカンディカンスはマデイラ諸島（東大西洋、モロッコ沖）原産の多年草で、美しい青紫色の花が密集する大きな花穂をつけ、多くの花蜂を集めるとてもすばらしい植物です。マデイラの誇りと呼ばれています。ラテン語のカンディカンスは輝く白という意味で、この植物の葉の色から来ています。
日本ではまだあまり一般的ではありませんが、その姿の素晴らしさに興味をもち、苗を入手して育て始めました。2年ほど花を咲かせると枯れてしまうことが多く、種が分かりにくくて最初は戸惑いましたが、こぼれ種から沢山発芽してくることもよくあり、それを鉢上げして苗を育て、ずっと毎年花を楽しんでいます。
今年すばらしくたくさんの花穂をつけた株は、庭の入り口横にこぼれ種から育ったもので、通行の邪魔になって一部の枝葉切ったりしていましたが、昨年少し花が咲き、今年は花穂が20本以上出て咲き始めています。さっそく蜜蜂やクロマルハナバチなどがやってきて蜜を吸っています。これから２，３週間が見頃です。
ショータイムの始まりです！
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