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Erica tenella

Erica tenella
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  • Erica subdivaricata flowers
  • Erica subdivaricata leaves
  • Erica taxifolia
  • Erica taxifolia brown on top
  • Erica taxifolia buds and leaves
  • Erica taxifolia flowers
  • Erica taxifolia old flowers
  • Erica taxifolia stem-tip leaves
  • Erica tenella
  • Erica tenella flowers
  • Erica tenella showing many tiny urn-shaped flowers
  • Erica unicolor subsp. georgensis
  • Erica unicolor subsp. georgensis leaves
  • Erica unicolor subsp. mutica
  • Erica unicolor subsp. mutica branching leaf cluster
  • Erica unicolor subsp. mutica buds ready to open
  • Erica unicolor subsp. mutica leaves

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Erica tenella is an erect, shrub with hairy, pale grey branches growing to 45 cm. The specific name, tenella, means slender or flexible and small, probably referring to the growth form of the plant. The linear leaves grow in fours, ascending to spreading, grooved and keeled. They are short and bright green in the photo.

A brightly pink flowering form of this plant grows abundantly in Fernkloof. The plant‘s distribution is in the Western Cape from around Paarl to Bredasdorp where the plants grow on fynbos slopes (Baker and Oliver, 1967).

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Thabo Maphisa
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Ivan Latti
 
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