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Kapok Heath

Erica bruniades

Kapok Heath
Photo: Andrew massyn, CC BY-SA 3.0

Erica bruniades, the kapok heath, is a South African fynbos shrub in the heather family, endemic to the Western Cape. It needs full sun, sharp drainage and little feeding, and is rarely grown outside its native range.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings; fynbos heaths resent wet roots.
Soil
Acidic, sandy or gritty, very free-draining mix low in phosphorus
Temperature
Mild, roughly 10–25 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes
How easy
Hard
Native range
Cape Prov.
Climate
subtropical

About

Erica bruniades, the kapok heath, is a flowering plant in the genus Erica, part of the fynbos. The species is endemic to the Western Cape in South Africa.

Other Erica plants

Erica abbottii · Honeysuckle heath · Summer heath · Erica albens · Erica alfredii · Cold Heath · Foxtail Erica · Erica amicorum · Erica amoena · Erica ampullacea · Erica andevalensis · Eyelash Heath

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Erica bruniades by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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