Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
WOODY PLANT(usually shrubs) with leaves with PARALLEL VENATION (Fig. 26). Leaves alternate or spirally arranged, often crowded, rigid, ericoid, often sharp-pointed; the margins usually entire but sometimes denticulate; stipules absent Ericaceae
Stamens 8–10, twice as many as corolla lobes
Flower <1.5 cm long
Branchlets with simple hairs. Leaves 3–4 in each whorl, terete, grooved underneath, glabrous, 3–6 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Flowers axillary, forming large pyramidal panicles. Calyx tubular, 4-lobed, much shorter than the corolla. Corolla narrowly campanulate, pink to white, 4–5 mm long. Erect shrub 1–2 m high Naturalized at places in Blue Mts and on the coastal plain. Introd. from W. Europe. Fl. autumn–spring Erica lusitanica
Branchlets with branched hairs. Similar to E. lusitanica but leaves 0.7 mm wide, and floral parts slightly larger. Flowers white or cream. Naturalized in Blackheath area. Introd. from W. Europe. Fl. autumn–spring Erica arborea