Canary Islands Flora Garden

Plumbaginaceae

Limonium arboreum (Willd.) Erben, A. Santos & Reyes-Bet.

Tree everlasting

A shrub that grows to over 1 m in height. It has short stems with leaves arranged in a basal rosette. The leaves are long-petioled, entire, and ovate, with a light green color. The flowers have white corollas and purple calyxes and develop on long, winged, highly branched, and multi-flowered scapes. It is endemic to the islands of Tenerife and La Palma.