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Erica is a genus of roughly 857 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. [3] The English common names heath and heather are shared by some closely related genera of similar appearance. The genus Calluna was formerly included in Erica – it differs in having even smaller scale-leaves (less than 2–3 millimetres long), and the ...
Erica (heaths or heathers) is a large genus of flowering trees, shrubs, and subshrubs most diverse in southern Africa but found throughout the continent and in Europe. They have been introduced to Australia and North America.
Their flowers are hermaphrodite and show considerable variability. The petals are often fused ( sympetalous ) with shapes ranging from narrowly tubular to funnelform or widely urn-shaped. The corollas are usually radially symmetrical ( actinomorphic ) and urn-shaped, but many flowers of the genus Rhododendron are somewhat bilaterally ...
Erica umbellata on Citânia de Briteiros. Erica umbellata is a 10 to 50 cm (3.9 to 19.7 in) bush. It has young stems with barely marked ribs and reddish-brown bark. It has terminal inflorescences, umbelliform, with 3-6 flowers, without involvement of basal bracteoles. Seeds are ellipsoidal and 0.5–0.6 mm (0.020–0.024 in) long.
Erica carnea, the winter heath, [1] winter-flowering heather, spring heath or alpine heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to mountainous areas of central, eastern and southern Europe, where it grows in coniferous woodlands or stony slopes.
Erica arborea is an upright evergreen shrub or small tree with a typical height in the wild of some 7 m (23 ft), especially in Africa, but more typically 1–4 m (3–13 ft) in gardens. It bears dark green needle-like leaves and numerous small honey-scented bell-shaped white flowers.
Erica or ERICA may refer to: Erica (given name) Erica, a flowering plant genus; Erica (chatbot), a service of Bank of America; Erica, a 2019 FMV video game; Erica, a jumping spider genus; Erica, Emmen, a village in Drenthe, the Netherlands; Erica, Victoria, a town in Australia Erica railway station; ERICA:
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