Fasciated Echium

I thought you all might find this interesting since stem fasciation is not particularly common, except in certain cultivated plants. I was out in the front garden admiring my Echium candicans and seeing how the flowering stems were developing when I noticed two branches of the same plant were fasciated. Here are the shots:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxytone/4346764239/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxytone/4347509970/in/photostream/

I'm not entirely sure how these came to be fasciated (as it apparently has numerous possible causes) but I did notice that there was a dead branch end on one of the branches.



Barry
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