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Eriocephalus
Highly aromatic shrubs which are most distinctive when covered in fluffy white fruiting heads from late spring to early summer. Thus the vernacular name, kapokbos (Afrikaans...
Erica walkeria
Erica walkeria is a densely leafy, shrubby heath with masses of starry, pink, urn-shaped flowers in small heads in spring, and makes a rewarding potplant...
Erica verticillata
How could a plant as hardy and strikingly beautiful as Erica verticillata have been allowed to reach the precipice of extinction? Fortunately the story...
Erica vernicosa
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Erica ventricosa
Erica ventricosa, with its exquisite flowers and dense, compact habit, is one of the most attractive of the Erica species. ...
Erica uysii
Erica uysii starts to form flower buds by the middle of August and fully presents light to dark pink flowers in September and October....
Erica urna-viridis
Erica urna-viridis is a very unusual erica as it produces green sticky flowers. This is a very unusual colour in the Cape Flora....
Erica unicolor subsp. georgensis
This shrubby heath produces clusters of red, tubular flowers with light yellow tips, which make it very eye-catching when reaching its flowering peak in...
Erica turgida
Erica turgida is an erect, bushy plant 300-400 mm high, with slender, willowy and slightly hairy branches. ...
Erica triflora
Erica triflora has been in cultivation for a long time and appears on a list of heaths that were cultivated by Messrs Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith,...
Erica tragulifera
This attractive, evergreen, little plant boasts with an eye-catching display of white flowers from winter until almost the end of spring....
Erica taxifolia
With its showy, bright pink, late summer flowers Erica taxifolia is a colourful addition to the fynbos garden, rockery or patio....
Erica sparsa var. sparsa
Erica sparsa is a free-flowering, relatively easy-to-grow, fynbos shrub that produces masses of small flowers in late summer, autumn and winter, that turn...
Erica sociorum
Erica sociorum is the most localized of all Cape Peninsula endemic ericas, and only found growing in a very limited area on cliffs above Noordhoek....
Erica sitiens
This upright or sprawling shrub becomes covered with masses of pink, red or white flowers, or a combination of red with white lobes, during the summer...
Erica shannonii
Erica shannonii is one of the most spectacular ericas with its long porcelain-white flowers arranged in clusters at the ends of its branches....
Erica sessiliflora
Erica sessiliflora has intriguing, pale yellowish green, tube-shaped flowers in showy heads and is a rewarding and decorative garden plant....
Erica scytophylla
This shrub produces white or pink flowers in spring and early summer, usually from September to December, and is ideal for container planting....
Erica scabriuscula
Erica scabriuscula is a most impressive, hardy erica that grows into a large bush covered with thousands of small white to pale pink flowers through...
Erica rhopalantha var. rhopalantha
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