Erica arborea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Ericales
- Family
- Ericaceae
- Genus
- Erica
- Species
- Erica arborea
- Scientific Name
- Erica arborea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Erica arborea
Erica arborea, the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. It is also cultivated as an ornamental.
The wood, known as briar root (French: bruyère, Catalan: bruc, Portuguese: betouro, Spanish: brezo), is extremely hard and heat-resistant, and is used for making smoking pipes. Leaf fossils attributed to this species were described for the Mio-Pleistocene deposit of São Jorge in Madeira Island.
...Erica arborea in languages:
- Catalan
- Bruc boal
- Czech
- vřesovec stromovitý
- Danish
- Trælyng
- English
- Tree heath
- English
- Mist Heath
- Finnish
- puukellokanerva
- French
- Bruyère en arbre
- French
- Bruyère arborescente
- French
- Bruyère arboricole
- Galician
- Uz branca
- Galician
- Breixo branco
- German
- Baumheide
- Italian
- Erica arborea
- Polish
- wrzosiec drzewiasty
- Portuguese
- Urze-arbórea
- Russian
- Эрика древовидная
- Slovene
- drevesasta resa
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Erica andevalensis
- Erica arborea
- Erica australis
- Erica austronyassana
- Erica azorica
- Erica canariensis
- Erica carnea
- Erica ciliaris
- Erica cinerea
- Erica erigena
- Erica lusitanica
- Erica mackayana
- Erica maderensis
- Erica manipuliflora
- Erica marojejyensis
- Erica multiflora
- Erica numidica
- Erica platycodon
- Erica robynsiana
- Erica scoparia
- Erica sicula
- Erica spiculifolia
- Erica terminalis
- Erica tetralix
- Erica umbellata
- Erica vagans
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