synonym: Erica verticillata (invalid).
Shrub, erect or spreading or prostrate (especially at high altitude), to 4m tall; leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, to 9mm long; flowers 1–5 in axillary umbels on very short shoots; calyx of 4 free sepals or 4-lobed with unequal lobes fused at base; corolla bell-shaped, to 4.5 mm long, in varying shades of mauve or pink, or rarely white (Erica manipuliflora f. albiflora); stamens 8, emergent; anther without spurs; nectar produced.
Blooms in late summer and autumn.
An eastern Mediterranean species occurring from Italy (Apulia) through Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece (including Crete, and the Ionian and Aegean islands), Turkey, northern Cyprus, Syria, and Lebanon. It is lime-tolerant and happily grows on magnesium-deficient soils. Suitable for hardiness zone 8.
Closely related to Cornish heath (Erica vagans). Only pink-flowered cultivars are commercially available at present but white-flowered plants are known in cultivation (one clone has been named ‘Olivia Hall’ but it is not commercially available).
Lilac-pink (H11) flowers, VIII–X; light green foliage; bark on shoots white; neat, erect; height 75cm–1m; spread 75cm–1m. Suitable for low hedging in milder climates.
Collected from the hedge of Talltrees, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, by David Small (Denbeigh Heather Nurseries, Creeting St Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk); introduced by Denbeigh Heather Nurseries about 1976.
Named after the Suffolk town where it was found.
Flowers white, anthers maroon ; VIII/IX-X late; habit upright.
Clone AWJ3 collected in Croatia by the late A. W. Jones.
Named after A. W. Jones, the finder, a keen student of heathers, particularly this species, and formerly the Registrar and Honorary Editor of The Heather Society. Registered on 20 December 2010 by The Registrar, The Heather Society.
Lilac (H4) flowers, IX–XI; mid-green foliage; open, spreading habit with long trailing shoots; height 26–30cm; spread 46–60cm. Ideal for trailing over rocks or the sides of troughs. Collected in Dalmatia by A. W. Jones in October 1988.
Lilac-pink flowers, IX–X, in “interrupted” upright spikes; mid-green foliage; upright open habit; height 46–60cm; spread 46–60cm.
Wild-collected; found on Corfu, Greece, by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) about 1972.
Named after the Greek island on which it was collected.
Pale pink (H8) flowers, VIII–IX, free flowering; light green foliage; dense and erect; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. Hardy.
Wild-collected; found on Corfu, Greece, by Don Richards (Rydal Mount, Eskdale, Cumbria, England) about 1972.
Named after the collector.
Note: Classified as Erica manipuliflora subsp. anthura; Jones (1991: 31) stated ‘The cultivars ‘Don Richards’, ‘Elegant Spike’, ‘Ian Cooper’ and ‘Korcula’, all … are E. anthura …’.
Shell-pink (H16) flowers, X–XII, very abundant; grey-green foliage; spreading habit; height 31–45cm; spread 46–60cm. Hardy.
Wild-collected; found on Otok Korçula in former Yugoslavia (now in Croatia), by A. G. Small (Eltham, London, England) in 1978.
Named after a friend of the finder.
Classified as Erica manipuliflora subsp. anthura
Note: Jones (1991: 31) stated ‘The cultivars ‘Don Richards’, ‘Elegant Spike’, ‘Ian Cooper’ and ‘Korcula’, all … are E. anthura …’
Pale shell-pink (H16) flowers, IX–XI, larger than normal, in long arching sprays, scented; mid-green foliage; broad and rather open habit; height 46–60cm; spread to more than 1m.
Flowers in long racemes, single; sepals light green; corolla broad-campanulate, white in warm climates and indoors, otherwise pale lilac (H4, RHS CC 69D); anthers exserted, dark beetroot (H9); VIII-X; erect habit, up to lm tall; foliage mid-green (RHS CC 137B).
Wild-collected; found at Lara Bay, Antalya, Turkey, on 1 October 1978 by Mrs Olivia Hall (Alresford, Hampshire, England). Registered 10 October 1996: Mrs Olivia M. E. Hall, Domus, The George Yard, Alresford, Hampshire, England.
Named after the finder.
Flowers pale pink “with a hint of coral”; corolla translucent; sepals pearly white; anthers dark maroon; style strongly exserted; pedicels dusky red; VII/VIII-XI;
Chance seedling before 2005, most probably from ‘Toothill Mustard’; found by R. Canovan in his garden.
® E.2010:14 registered on 20 December 2010 by Richard Canovan, Toothill, Swindon, Wiltshire.
Flowers heliotrope, with lilac-pink calyx; IX–X; foliage mustard-yellow in spring, becoming brighter in wearly summer before fading to golden green by early winter.
A sport (found in 1998 by R. Canovan (Toothill, Swindon)) on unnamed plant collected in Dalmatia by A. W. Jones.
Named from the spring foliage colour is close to oil-seed rape; but with the old foliage being greenish and the red stem it looks like mustard pickle.
Registered on 23 July 2002 by R. Canovan.
Correct name ‘Cascades‘
