More likely a plant store name. I looked it up: native to Madeira.
At 08:26 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
>Max, I think, Madeira is an island off Portugal, near or of the
>Canaries. (I should Google). I think the Pride of Madeira- as used
>in California - may have something to do with the significant
>coastal and elsewhere population of Portugese. Name and plant
>probably a palliative for the marginalized and homesick. California
>probably similar to Australia - the Anglo shellac forcing the
>superiority of its culture down on everything - or so they
>thought! Echium, I like the sound much better, a much better match
>to how I respond to the blooms!
>
> Stephen
>
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Lots of Melbourne
>gardens have these glories, simply known here as Echium.
>
>
>
>
>On 26/3/08 11:05 AM, "Stephen Vincent" wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Anny and Mark, for your vigourous plant/flower searches.
> > I am sorry to say, in this case, you are not winners.
> >
> > A friend in local horticulture came up with both accurate photo and name:
> >
> > Pride of Madeira
> >
> > for picture and furhter details go to:
> >
> > http://daviswiki.org/Pride_of_Madeira
> >
> > Normally a kind of dense green leaf shrub, it's flourishing in bloom and
> > beautiful this time of year in coastal California.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Stephen
> > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >
> >
> > Anny Ballardini wrote: No, I think I know what
> > they are but I never knew their name. They are tall,
> > over one meter, is that right? And they come in different colors,
> all shades
> > of blue but also rose and pink. They might be of the orchid family because
> > each tiny flower (of the bigger bunch) has a similar pattern, and
> they stand
> > tall toward the sky. I found on the net some blue flowers of the ginger
> > family but I cannot find the page any more.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> >
> >> blue bottlebrush? http://thefragguys.com/img/Surbpurpleacro.jpg
> >>
> >> At 05:40 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
> >>> Not it, but thanks. These flowers spiral bunch in the manner of a,
> >>> haha, toilet brush. (from wide diameter at base of many close
> >>> together flowers, to one at the top.
> >>>
> >>> Stephen
> >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>
> >>> Mark Weiss wrote: There is a candelabra flower.
> >>> http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantab/brunswigorient.htm. Failing that,
> >>> scan in a photo of the offending plant and maybe we can do a group
> >>> hunt (and even find some derelict easter eggs).
> >>>
> >>> It occurred to me the other day that agribusiness has missed a bet by
> >>> not marketing its eggs painted this time of year. Me, I prefer bunny
> >>> stew for easter.
> >>>
> >>> Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At 05:14 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote:
> >>>> I've got a poem going that, currently, suffers from 'nominal fallacy'!
> >>>> I don't know if 'nominal fallacy' was on that original list with
> >>>> 'pathetic fallacy' and all the others. But I have been wrong twice
> >>>> so far on getting the name right on this plant/flower combination
> >>>> and I don't want to risk further embarrassment.
> >>>> First I put 'lavender blue' pedals on a bottle-brush plant. Only
> >>>> to find it was not a bottle-brush because it was pointed out that
> >>>> such plants only have 'red spiky flowers'.
> >>>> Second time through I put 'lilac blue' flowers a ceanothus plant.
> >>>> Which is accurate to such a plant, but it was not the plant. Thank
> >>>> you, Google, for the correcting image!.
> >>>> This morning I found the plant with other such plants - some had
> >>>> raspberry and others had deep blue petals (on vertical 6 to 12 inch
> >>>> spiral, flowering 'branches '.) I asked a passerby. Ten minutes
> >>>> later she came back in her car. "My husband says it called a
> >>>> 'Candle of Madera' ." Indeed the multiple flowering plant looked
> >>>> like an inverted candelabra.
> >>>> However, nowhere to be found on Google!
> >>>> I and my poor, nominally compromised poem will appreciate an
> >>>> accurate report from a knowledgeable green thumb - if there is one
> >>>> on the premises?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance, and, as a reward, I will be happy to send a
> >>>> copy of the repaired poem, even post the corrected version on my
> >>>> blog. I would post a jpeg of the culprit on my blog, but the
> >>>> worn-out camera went in for much need repair.
> >>>>
> >>>> Honestly, perhaps like Spicer, I am trying real hard to put the
> >>>> real flower in a real poem!
> >>>>
> >>>> Stephen V
> >>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>
> >
> >
>
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