Cynoglossum amabile Stapf & Drummond (China) – A rare and ephemeral horticultural escape. First documented in 2011, when C. amabile was found on two occasions: in the Hochter Bampd nature reserve in Lanklaar, on the gravelly banks of river Maas, and on levelled soil in Obourg. Since then regularly observed, for instance in Antwerpen, Egem, Grobbendonk, Kallo and Pellenberg.
Seed of Cynoglossum amabile is often included in wild flower seed mixtures and this doubtlessly accounts for most of the recent records in Belgium.
Selected literature:
Ariza Espinar L. (1984) Cynoglossum amabile (Boraginaceae) en el centro de Argentina, Kurtziana 17: 145-148.
Keith E., Singhurst J.R. & Holmes W.C. (2016) Iberis umbellata (Brassicaceae) and Cynoglossum amabile (Boraginaceae) adventive in Texas. Phytoneuron 2016-64: 1–4. [available online at: http://www.phytoneuron.net/2016Phytoneuron/64PhytoN-IberisTexas.pdf]
Stapf O. & Drummond J.R. (1906) 415. Cynoglossum amabile, Stapf et Drummond. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1906: 202. [available online at: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42577#page/210/mode/1up]
Turrill W.B. (1949) Cynoglossum amabile Stapf & Drumm. var. parviflorum. Curtis´s Botanical Magazine 177: 82.