New records in vascular plants alien to Tenerife (Spain, Canary Islands) Author Verloove, Filip https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4144-2422 Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium filip.verloove@plantentuinmeise.be text Biodiversity Data Journal 2021 2021-04-26 9 62878 62878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62878 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e62878 1314-2828-9-e62878 D24EB63F1B0E5922BA6788EC76A26D81 Cuphea hyssopifolia Kunth, 1823 [1824] Cuphea hyssopifolia Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.) 6: 199-200. 1823 [1824] Distribution TENERIFE: Santa Ursula , La Quinta, Calle El Escoban, cracks in pavement, three escaped individuals (not seen planted nearby), 10.12.2018, F. Verloove 13416 (BR). https://observation.org/observation/205254459/ Notes This tiny ornamental shrub is native to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, but widely cultivated elsewhere in the subtropics. It easily self-seeds and sometimes naturalises where introduced, for instance, in Hawaii and New Zealand ( Gardner and de Lange 1996 , Gardner 1998 ). In the Canary Islands, it was previously reported from La Palma ( Otto and Verloove 2016 ). In December 2018, few plants were noticed in cracks of concrete in a residential area in La Quinta.