Echium wildpretii ssp. trichosiphon

Pink tajinaste (Echium perezii) is a species of Echium that is found high up in the area of La Caldera de Taburiente on the Canary Island of La Palma. Like its sister plant on Tenerife, this plant forms a large rosette of silvery leaves which eventually give rise to tall spikes of bright pink flowers about 2 metres in height. The plant is biennial and dies after flowering. This plant can be grown in gardens, but requires good drainage and fairly mild conditions. The plant hates water falling in the centre of the rosette and will often rot in such conditions. The term tajinaste is borrowed from Guanche, an extinct language spoken by the inhabitants of the Canary Islands prior to their colonisation by Spain, and is used to refer to various other local species of Echium. These include the red tajinaste on Tenerife, the tajinaste palmero de cumbre also on La Palma, the white tajinaste in Gran Canaria, the critically endangered blue tajinaste on La Gomera, and tajinaste de jandía on Fuertev......read more on Wikipedia.