Erica viscaria subsp. longifolia flowering red with yellow tips

Erica viscaria subsp. longifolia also flowers red with yellow tips, although this is not among the most common forms of the plant. Some of the red-flowering plants have white corolla tips. The eight-ribbed corolla tubes are wide and here not very long, variable in length in the subspecies. The yellow corolla lobes are round-tipped, curving out immediately past the constrictions at the ends of the tubes.

The red pedicels are short, the flowers in a short raceme on a stem already grown its tip well past them, as life goes on.

The thin leaves are long, living up to the subspecies name. In picture they curve their tips in to the stems (Manning and Helme, 2024; iNaturalist).