Tree Heath
Erica arborea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.0 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Ericaceae
Formerly Arsace arborea, Erica acrophya, Erica alpina, Erica elata, and 4 more
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Medit to W. Transcaucasus, Trop. African Mts., Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 4.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 4–8 m; Wikipedia 1–4 m
- Spread
- 2.5 m to 4.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Asturian
- urcia
- Welsh
- grugwydden grugwydd
- American English
- briar root
- Slovenian
- drevesasta resa
- Chinese
- 白欧石南
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Erica arborea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.