Strange Echium?

When we moved to central Portugal last year our overgrown garden was covered in wild blue flowers I took to be Echium Vulgare. I cleared most, but some of those I left have this year thrown up beautiful tall (up to chest high), wide (up to 8"/20cm) flat ribbed flower spikes. Can anyone help?

 

It's Fasciated.
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/fascinatingfasciation.html
HTH
Chris

 

Could be a crazy Echium plantagineum... :)

Hm, looks like this mutant Echium-monster is "suspiciously frequent" in your area... so be careful!!! :)))
This Echium was found also in Portugal: http://forum.pflanzenbestimmung.de/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3211

 

Thanks, Chris - fasciated it is! We had a rare frost last winter so maybe that's what did it.