Erica abietina flowers and leaves

These Erica abietina flowers have long cylindrical corollas, shiny as well as longitudinally lined. There is slight surface stickiness and scattered signs of roughness, maybe hairiness. The corolla tips are shallowly lobed, some styles variably exserted. Narrow, pointed and hairy sepals, coloured red as well, can just be discerned at the base of a couple of the flowers in picture.

The dense, thread-like leaves are splayed outwards, curving in uniformly near the stem tips. Some yellow young leaf colouring at stem tips, as well as orange leaf tips are present on some stem tips in the photo.

The photo was taken on Table Mountain in November (Manning and Helme, 2024; Clarke and Mackenzie, 2007; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).