Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Ehretia tinifolia L.
Frost hardy tree with elliptic leaves, to 17cm, and terminal panicles, to 15cm across, of fragrant, tubular white flowers, followed by orange-yellow fruits. To 25m. [RHSD].
Epacris longiflora Cav.
Frost tender, erect or spreading, evergreen shrub with ovate, pointed leaves, to 1cm long, and pendant, cylindrical, white-tipped red flowers, produced singly from leaf axils or in terminal spikes to 4cm long, from spring to summer. To 1.5m. [RHSE, FNSW, Beadle].
Epacris purpurascens R.Br.
Stiffly erect shrub with ovate leaves and white flowers flushed with reddish-purple. To 1.5m. [RHSD, FNSW].
Eranthemum species unidentified
Probably an unidentified Eranthemum species, but see Pseuderanthemum asperum Radlk. for information on a related plant.
Ercilla volubilis Juss.
Frost hardy, vigorous, freely-branching climber with ovate-heart-shaped leaves, with a pattern of pale veins, and many green or purple flower spikes, mainly in spring, followed by deep purple berries. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Erica abietina L. ssp. abietina
There is no record of a plant called Erica abietina in the Camden Park historical record. Erica abietina L. ssp. abietina is included in the Hortus as the plant grown by Macarthur under the name Erica coccinea may be Erica abietina. See Horticultural & Botanical History below and Erica coccinea L. for further explanation.
Erica abietina is a sturdy, dense shrub with a single, freely-branching woody stem, the mid to upper branches clothed with a dense arrangement of green, needle-like leaves. The flowers are clustered near the ends of the branches and are bright red, tubular, curved and flared at the mouth. Flowers are produced from midsummer to midwinter but appear occasionally throughout the year. To 1.5m. [http://www.plantzafrica.com].
Erica arborea L.
Tall shrub or small tree, leaves in whorls of 3, fragrant, bell-shaped, grayish-white flowers are borne in profuse panicles towards the end of lateral branches in spring. To 6m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Erica baccans L.
Half-hardy, robust, erect, many-branched heath with axillary whorls, to 2.5cm long, each with 4 spherical, deep pink flowers, 6mm across, with keeled, dark pink sepals, in winter and spring. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Erica bauera Andr.
Half-hardy, open, sparsely-branched shrub with blue-green leaves in whorls of 4 and terminal, pendant, compact pseudo-spikes of small white or pink flowers all year round. To 30cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Erica canaliculata Andr.
Half-hardy erect heath with panicle-like whorls, to 30cm long, of cup-shaped, pale pink to white flowers, 4mm across, in winter and spring. To 2m or more. [RHSE, Hilliers'].
Erica cerinthoides L.
Half-hardy, erect heath with umbels, to 3.5cm across, of tubular, red, pink or white flowers, mainly in winter and spring. To 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Erica imbricata L.
See Botanical and Horticultural History
Erica mammosa L.
Half-hardy, erect heath with leaves in whorls of 4 and clustered, pendant, terminal racemes, to 7cm long, of tubular, dark wine-red, orange, pink, green or white flowers, to 2.5cm long, summer to winter. To 1.5m. [RHSE].
Erica manipuliflora Salisb.
Frost-hardy erect to spreading heath with irregular racemes, to 10cm long, of cylindrical to bell-shaped, rose-pink flowers, 4mm long, in summer and autumn. To 1m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Erica multiflora L.
A heath with leaves in whorls of 5 or 6 and dense spikes of pink flowers. To 90cm, much more in the wild. [RHSD].
