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Erica annectens
This late summer flowering erica is only found on the Cape Peninsula....
Erica baccans
Erica baccans is a well-known, showy species that produces bright, cherry-pink splashes of colour on the middle to lower slopes of the Cape Peninsula....
Erica bakeri
Erica bakeri is one of the most threatened species in the Ericaceae family. It is only known from one locality that is threatened by alien vegetation,...
Erica baueri subsp. baueri
Erica baueri subsp. baueri is one of the most popular and widely cultivated of the South African species. It is one of the few ericas that regularly...
Erica baueri subsp. gouriquae
Erica baueri subsp. baueri is one of the best known ericas and popular as a South African fynbos garden plant. A second subspecies, subsp. gouriquae, was...
Erica blenna var. grandiflora
Erica blenna var. grandiflora is unusual in flower shape and colour and these attributes contribute to making South African ericas uniquely...
Erica brachialis
Erica brachialis is not the showiest of ericas; it is a long-lived, easy-to-grow and discreetly decorative shrub that is well suited to coastal gardens...
Erica caffra
When walking along a stream or near a wetland on a warm day in spring or early summer, a strong sweet smell is sometimes the first indication that one...
Erica cameronii
Erica cameronii is a strikingly beautiful, rock-dwelling species, limited to high altitudes in the Hex River Mountains. One particular shrub known amongst...
Erica canaliculata
Erica canaliculata is a most impressive species that grows into a small tree that is covered with thousands of small pink flowers in summer. This...
Erica caterviflora
Erica caterviflora is a magnificent erica that was thought to have become extinct by the early 1990s, but the author rediscovered it in 2006 while...
Erica cerinthoides
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Erica clavisepala
Erica clavisepala is a rare decorative little heath, well suited to fynbos gardens and those on the sandy flats....
Erica coccinea subsp. coccinea
Erica coccinea subsp. coccinea is a decorative fynbos shrub with large, pendulous tubular flowers, in a range of colours, that attract sunbirds to the...
Erica croceovirens
Erica croceovirens is a newly described species which is closely related to other tubular southern Cape species such as E. versicolor, E....
Erica curviflora
Erica curviflora var. curviflora is a spectacular and widespread species occurring throughout the fynbos region and as far-east as Grahamstown....
Erica denticulata
Erica denticulata stands out in a family of over 700 species as being one of the few that have scented flowers. The scent is reminiscent of carnations...
Erica diaphana
Erica diaphana is a strong-growing heath from the southern Cape that brings summer colour to the fynbos garden....
Erica discolor
Erica discolor is a very common and variable species complex that used to consist of two well-known and widespread species namely, Erica discolor and Erica...
Erica fairii
Conserve a species on the brink of extinction and marvel at the unique beauty of this unassuming plant.Erica fairii flowers...