Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. x canariensis
Mill.
L. buchii
Webb and Berthol. var. 
buchii
This hybrid appears to occur infrequently in the wild where the two parents overlap, in the north-
ern part of Tenerife. Forms a woody shrub to 
c
. 100 cm with bipinnatisect leaves (resembling 
L. canariensis
) with narrow lobes and usually with a white indumentum (resembling 
L. buchii
).
The form and branching of the peduncle is very typical of 
L. canariensis
, the spikes not being 
clustered at the apex of the peduncle as in 
L. buchii
var. 
buchii
. The spikes are slender, 5–10 cm
long and not short and robust as in 
L. buchii
var. 
buchii
. The bracts in the two parent species are
very similar, both being ovate acuminate in shape and 0.5–0.75
the length of the calyx.