Camarinha

Corema album (L.), known by the common names of "camarinha" or "camarinheira", is a shrub of the Ericaceae family, despite in some floras still emerge wrongly identified as Empetraceae. It is a small evergreen shrub, dioecious, with height usually less than 1 m and branched erect branches. Their branches off a smell similar to honey. The narrow leaves straight, 10 mm long and 1 mm wide, dark green. It blooms from March to May, with male and female flowers in terminal clusters with 5-10 flowers emerge at the end of the branches. The petals are pale pink color in male and usually absent flowers in female flowers. It produces in July / September a small white fruit in the form of a fleshy drupe, edible.