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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 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