A honey bee collects nectar from the densely packed pink flowers of Echium wildpretii. The tubular blossoms are arranged along a tall inflorescence covered in fine hairs, with greenhouses reflecting in the background.

A row of tall Echium wildpretii plants growing along a greenhouse wall at the Bonn Botanic Garden. The plants have silver-gray rosettes and striking pink flower spikes, all in full bloom under a sunny sky.

🌺 #Echium wildpretii .. from 🌋Tenerife to #Bonn!

Our garderns tested overwintering under climate change—most plants survived ❄️🌱 Now buzzing with pollinators 🐝

#BonnBotanicGardens #ClimateChange #Botany

📄 More on the evolution of #Boraginales in our new paper in Ann. Bot.: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...