Erica densifolia many flowers

The individual side-branches of solitary Erica densifolia flowers are visible in this photo, forming what looks like a raceme but isn’t quite that. Each of these short flowering branchlets has only a few leaves.

The usually rounded, yellow petal lobe-tips appear pointed here, the old corolla tubes having narrowed from old age wrinkling.

Some stem-tips newly grown above the flowers may have their leaves imbricate or in vertical arrays; variably arranged on the same plant. The specific name, densifolia is derived from Latin, meaning crowded leaves or densely leaved (Baker and Oliver, 1967; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015).