Re: Fasciated Echium



On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:04 PM, <T*@aol.com> wrote:
A few years ago, we had a house in So CA on a cliff over the ocean.  The slope to the cliff was covered in Echium Candicans.  One of the plants fasciated into a 2 foot wide stem of blooms.  It was gorgeous.  I cut it and used it in a fantastic floral arrangement.    I don't know what caused it to fasciate and there were no dead branches on it.  Last year, here in No CA again on a slope, I had lettuce fasciating all over the place.  I let the lettuce go to seed all over the 1  acre garden and we eat it or pull it out and feed it to the chickens if it's in the way. 
Carolyn
 
I've seen mild cases of fasciation on other plants, but this is the first time I'd seen it on an Echium, and never with branches as flat and wide as those. It's fascinating in a rather grotesque way. Would be interesting if someone developed a crested cultivar of Echium, although not sure if that would really sell! :D
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