You are most likely to come across this plant either in gardens, or nearby just outside where it has just escaped. Many similarities to : Hidcote Pink but there the ( open) flowers are pink where they are pale-blue in Hidcote-Blue.Įasily mistaken for : Creeping Comfrey ( Symphytum grandiflorum) but the ( open) flower is pale yellow where they are pale-blue in Hidcote-Blue. Is the Hybrid between : Creeping Comfrey ( Symphytum grandiflorum) and possibly Russian Comfrey ( Symphytum × uplandicum) Not to be semantically confused with : Symphoricarpos all comfrey varieties make the bees happy. This variety has dark green leaves clusters of dark pink to red buds open to small and lovely white to cream flowers in spring and early summer. Comfrey has long been known as a medicinal herb, its common name was knitbone. Older leaves slightly larger and slightly heart-shaped joining the stem at a hyper-abrupt 100 - 120° angle, younger ones, as here, joining the stem at an abrupt angle of about 70° - 90°. Similar in height to ‘Hidcote Blue’, grandiflorum’s height and width can be 1.5’ x 2’ and it is hardy to at least USDA zone 5. Symphytum grandiflorum Hidcote Blue - Comfrey. Leaf stems not or hardly running down the side of the main stem they come from (decurrent), a characteristic of many, but not all Comfreys. Five mostly fusedpetals apart from at the periphery where there is a small nick. Stems and sepals have very short stubby hairs. Sepal tube beetroot coloured with long and un-pointed teeth. Un-opened flowers are scarlet red, becoming pink/red, then mauvish. Flowers that have lost the corolla tube altogether have just a single long white stamen sticking prominently out (top). Symphytum 'Hidcote Blue' Hidcote comfrey An upright clump-forming rhizomatous perennial with oval, wrinkled and veined mid-green leaves. The flowering spike is coiled up like a catherine wheel, slowly unrolling with the outermost flowers opening first, others following in their turn. Flowers droop mostly downwards when opened.įlowers that, when open, are pale-blue on the narrow part of the corolla and white on the wider open part (petals). Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Boraginaceae Symphytum Symphytum Hidcote Blue (S. Grows to 50cm, usually found in or near gardens, as here.įloppily upright stems flowering stems. HIDCOTE-BLUE COMFREY HIDCOTE COMFREY Symphytum × hidcotense Borage Family ġ7th April 2009, Helsington Church, Kendal, Cumbria. Diese Blhfreude der zwischen 20 und 30 Zentimeter hohen Pflanze ist entzckend. Mit krftigen Schben legt der Beinwell 'Hidcote Blue' bis in die letzten Maitage kleine blass-blaue Bltenbltter nach. Comfrey (Hidcote-Blue) / Hidcote Blue Comfrey - Wild Flower Finder Ein entzckendes Bild entsteht, sobald die Blten von Symphytum grandiflorum 'Hidcote Blue' Anfang April beinahe gleichzeitig aufgehen.
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