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Tooth Heath

Erica denticulata

Tooth Heath
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0

Erica denticulata, the tooth heath, is a fynbos heath from the Western Cape of South Africa, grown mainly as a cool-climate shrub. It needs free-draining, acidic soil and full sun to thrive.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during establishment, then sparingly; avoid waterlogging and let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Acidic, sandy, free-draining, low-nutrient soil or ericaceous mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Cape Prov.
Climate
subtropical

About

Erica denticulata, known as the tooth heath, is a plant belonging to the genus Erica and forming part of the fynbos. The species is endemic to the Western Cape.

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 denticulata 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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