Flora Detail

Common Name Beauty Heath
Family Ericaceae (Heath Family)
Date Observed 12-01-2021
Category Shrubs
Catalogue No. 3371RG
Flowering Time Summer
Colour Pink to Mauve
Locations Observed
Estuary Few
Koppie Few
Nature Reserve Few
Small Holding Few
Village
Greater Rooiels Few

Ericaca pulchella

Information

Beauty Heath

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Latin: pulchella = beautiful; referring to the loveliness of the flowers of this species. Dry sandy flats and lower mountain slopes
Small erect shrub up to 60cm. Leaves are 3-nate, erect, relatively short; flowers small, urn-to-cup-shaped (sometimes narrowly so), in spikes, pink to dark red; pedicel (flower stalk), has short, reversed hairs.