Botany

Erica afra

Erica afra, the water heath, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Erica. It's a small tree, sometimes a shrub, that grows in riparian habitats and on forest edges and occurs from the Western Cape to the Drakensberg of KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho. The tree's flowers look like bells. The tree's national tree number is 572.

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See also

• ▸Dampiera
• ▸Eriophorum vaginatum
• ▸Iberis gibraltarica

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