Azorina

Azores Bellflower ( Azorina vidalii )

The Azores Bellflower ( Azorina vidalii ) is the only species of the genus Azorina within the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae ). This endemic species of the Azores is also used as an ornamental plant.

Description

The Azores bellflower grows as an evergreen, perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 80 to 150 centimeters. You already branched at the base, and woody in the lower part. The Azores Bellflower gets at the end of each branch exchange constant, fleshy, oblong, dark green leaves.

The flowering period extends from May to October. The upright inflorescence contains many hanging, waxy, pale pink, bell-shaped flowers. The shape Azorina vidalii forma alba has, as the name suggests, white flowers.

Occurrence

The Azores Bellflower is rare and usually grows in crevices of the cliff. It is usually below an altitude of 50 meters and is usually found together with samphire, which also tolerate the spray of the sea. It is distributed on the islands of Pico, São Jorge and the west of the Azores, but not on the island of Graciosa.

System

The first description was in 1844 under the name ( basionym ) Campanula vidalii by Hewett Cottrell Watson in Icones Plantarum Hooker's, panel DCLXXXIV ( 684). Heinrich Feer presented to her in 1890 under the name Azorina vidalii the genus Azorina in Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and geography of plants, 12, p 611.

Azorina vidalii is the only species of the genus in the subfamily Azorina Campanuloideae within the family Campanulaceae.

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• Entry at azorenflora.de.
• Entry at hortipedia.com.