Appearance
"Erica arborea" is an upright evergreen shrub or small tree with a typical height in the wild of some 7 m, especially in Africa, but more typically 1–4 m in gardens, bearing dark green needle-like leaves and numerous small honey-scented bell-shaped white flowers. It is a calcifuge, preferring acid soil in an open sunny situation.
Distribution
It is native to the maquis shrublands surrounding the Mediterranean Basin north to Bulgaria and west to Portugal and the Canary and Madeira Islands. Naturalised populations occur in south-eastern Australia.References:
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