Erica tenella flowers

The graceful, ovoid, urn-shaped Erica tenella corollas sit lightly on the darker coloured, needle-like sepals that only reach up the sides while the buds are still small.

The four rounded corolla lobes of each flower angle out around the mouth, where some anthers are visible but not exserted. The insides of the lobes are slightly darker-hued than the outsides of the urns.

Halfway down the pedicels of the flowers, the tiny floral bracts can be spotted, much smaller than both the leaves and the sepals (Manning and Helme, 2024; Bean and Johns, 2005; Baker and Oliver, 1967; iNaturalist).