Erica densifolia buds

The droopy buds of Erica densifolia are green-tipped here. The tips of open flowers become cream to pale yellow.

Dull, dark red sepals are visible on some corolla bases. The corolla tubes widen near their tips in the red section before the pale parts. The dark anthers are just reaching the petal lobe-tips but are not exserted as the white style.

The leaves at the stem-tip in picture are tufted like the tips of small side-branches. Old stems of this Erica are soon leafless, the bark grey-brown and smooth but for dropped-off leaf or small stem protuberances (Baker and Oliver, 1967; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015).