Erica ericoides on Table Mountain

The strongly honey-scented, small flowers of Erica ericoides grow in heads of up to twelve at a branch end.

The flower colour is white or one of several shades of pale pink, here about white with short, mostly purplish sepals tapering to acute tips at the backs of the corollas. The four shallowly rounded petal lobes angle out slightly beyond the tube mouths.

The dark anthers, brown or reddish brown to almost black, are exserted, the thin, white styles protruding further than the anthers.

Old flowers turn pale brown, giving the shrub a rusty appearance at the end of the blooming season. Flowering happens from before midsummer to after midautumn (Manning and Helme, 2024; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; Baker and Oliver, 1967; iNaturalist; iSpot).