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Index to Flowers in the Order Ericales

Family: Ericaceae
Erica pectinifolia Cockscomb Heath https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 68#p229268
Erica versicolor Outeniqua Heath https://africawild-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... 70#p171970

Outeniqua Heath Erica versicolor (Tweekleurige Heide)
Order: Ericales. Family: Ericaceae








Bontebok National Park

Description
This is a robust shrub of 2 m. Flowers large, tubular, pink with paler tips sometimes greenish. The growth habit of Erica versicolor may be sprawling or erect. The leaves are arranged in whorls of four, densely or spaced on the grey, woody stems, depending on the resources during the growth season at the time. The leaves are straight and narrow, spreading or pointing forward along the stems. Leaf colour is green, even dark green, to yellowish green. The shiny red flower tubes are barely curved, sometimes straight with a just discernible unevenness in girth. The yellow or whitish corolla tip may have a slight green tinge on its shallowly scalloped margin. Versicolor means having a variety of colours. Flowers may be found on Erica versicolor plants at any time during the year.

Distribution
Native to the Cedarberg and Langeberg Mountains in South Africa. Fynbos region of the Cape. From Clanwilliam to Knysna.

Habitat:
In fynbos growing on sandstone mountain slopes.

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Bontebok National Park

Cockscomb Heath Erica pectinifolia
Order: Ericales. Family: Ericaceae

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Baviaanskloof

Description
An erect, scraggy growing shrub, it grows up to 1,8 m high. It bears tubular flowers in terminal umbels of 4, with spreading lobes, between November and May. Flowers 14–18 mm long, pink, white or a combination of the two colours with shaggy hairs along mid-section of the tube. Leaves 3–6 mm, fringed with comb-like hairs. Bracts and sepals deeply pectinate.

Distribution
Endemic to the Cape, from the Swartberg and Uniondale east to Port Elizabeth.

Habitat
On dry hills and on the lower slopes of the mountains.