giant heather
erica arborea latin

Heathland is found in the wetter areas, on the west side of Mount Kenya, and is dominated by giant heathers.

Most surprising are the giant heathers, senecios and lobelias, to which the Swedish botanist Olov Hedberg from the Uppsala University referred to as "botanical big game".

Disa stairsii is a species of Disa of the family Orchidaceae that can be found growing with the giant heathers on the Ruwenzori Mountains of mountains in East tropical Africa.

The ludicrously switchback road around the island's canyons carried us on into the cloud forest at its brow, a dense and magical tangle of skinny laurel and giant heathers, cloaked in lichens and wreathed in near-permanent mist.

Tree heather (Erica arborea 'Estrella Gold')

Tree Heath (Erica arborea) grows in southern Spain, but without reaching the dimensions reached in the temperate evergreen forest or North Africa.

Some of the plant species present on the headland are: strawberry tree, rock samphire, marine samphire, myrtus, cistus, erica arborea, mastic, broom.

Briar is cut from the root burl of the tree heath (Erica arborea), which is native to the rocky and sandy soils of the Mediterranean region.

The vegetation of Asinara is a typical Mediterranean macchia, with Lentisk, Euphorbia, Tree heath (Erica arborea), Calicotome spinosa, Phyllirea angustifolia, Phoenician Juniper and cistus.

Finally, at the highest elevation elevations of the Tibesti, tree heath (Erica arborea) grows from moist crevices formed by early lava flows, and 24 different species of moss provide substrate for the tree heath.