Erica arborea - Tree heath

Tree heath (Erica arborea) is an evergreen Mediterranean shrub or small tree grown for its dense root burls, used to make briar smoking pipes, and its honey-scented flowers, an important nectar source for bees.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹

Outputs

• Wood¹

Type

• Shrub
• Evergreen

Functions

• Attracting bees²

Footnotes

1. Erica arborea | Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (no PFAF entry exists for this species) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

2. Erica arborea | First Nature ↩