It has a tall spike rising out of a rosette of large leaves.

In its first year it forms rosettes of hairy, silvery leaves and in the second it erupts with a tall spike of blue flowers.

The flowers are magenta to dark pink, 710 mm long, with 2050 or more flowers in a tall spike.

The flowers are produced on a tall spike, each flower 1-1.5 cm long, most commonly blue to purple in wild plants.

The wide curved awnings over windows on each story and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building only coincidentally resembles a stack of records on a turntable.