Erica Plukenetti - Indigenous South African Heath Shrub - 10 Seeds Pea The plant is best known

The plant is best known for the edible flower buds (capers)

Scarlet to orange flowers

The trunks and branches are trained from a young age to be elegant and interesting to view

The black beauty is possibly the most common variety with a dark purple colour

The plant also has long brown tuberous roots that are used for medicinal purposes

Erica Plukenetti - Indigenous South African Heath Shrub - 10 Seeds Pea The plant is best knownErica the heaths or heathers, is a genus of approximately 860 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. The English common names "heath" and "heather" are shared by some closely related genera of similar appearance. Most of the species are small shrubs from 0. 2 1. 5 m high, though some are taller. All are evergreen, with minute needle like leaves 215 mm long. Flowers are sometimes axillary, and sometimes in terminal umbels or spikes, and