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Erica recurvata
Also called Cauliflower Heath, Heap Heath
Erica recurvata is a critically endangered South African species of Cape heath.
E. recurvata is a shrub of some 30 to 60 centimetres (12 to 24 inches) in height. It has dense whorls of small needle-like leaves which are pale green to grey-green in colour, and recurving in habit, hence the specific name. Clusters of sticky, pendulous flowers appear in winter, having white sepals, dark brown to almost black corollas, and with long, red, exserted styles.
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 recurvata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
