R: Horticulture-worthy fauna of the Azores

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From: N*@mobot.org

To: m*@ucdavis.edu

Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:05 PM

Subject: RE: Horticulture-worthy fauna of the Azores

Joe,

One of the best has to be Campanula vidalii (= Azorina vidalii), a shrubby (about 2' / 60 cm tall) endemic bellflower. Branches covered with narrow glossy leaves and long spikes of 2" (5 cm) long white, tubular flowers. There are some in the Temperate House here at the Missouri Botanical Garden that came from seed collected on Flores island. They took about 2 years to flower from seed and now flower almost year-round. The climate in this glasshouse is Mediterranean except humid in the summer (hard to avoid in St. Louis).

Other plants? Well, there's a handsome shrubby, endemic spurge called Euphorbia stygiana.

Why can't I think of any others off-hand. There must be more. Anyone?

Nick Turland
St. Louis, MO
USDA Zone 6

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Seals [g*@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 June, 2002 10:26 PM
> To: Mediterranean Plant Forum
> Subject: Horticulture-worthy fauna of the Azores
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> Can someone please tell me what are the most
> horticulturally-worthy plants native (endemic or not)
> to the Azores?  I'll even take some great stuff from
> Madeira and the Canaries.
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> Thanks,
> Joe
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> Joe Seals
> Santa Maria, California --
> where the weather is always perfect
> and my garden always has something blooming
> and birds galore
>