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Borage of Zihuatanejo

ORDER BORAGINALES

Alkali Heliotrope

Heliotropium curassavicum

Flowers by Colour

-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Borages Order (Boraginales)

-Borage Family (Family Boraginaceae)

-Subfamily Heliotropioideae

-Heliotropes (Genus Heliotropium)

-Alkali Heliotrope (Heliotropium curassavicum)


It has green to blue-grey slightly fleshy leaves, and uncurling spirals of small white star-shaped flowers that emerge with lime to yellow centers that mature to purple. It has green to blue-grey slightly fleshy leaves, and uncurling spirals of small white star-shaped flowers that emerge with lime to yellow centers that mature to purple.

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