Daboecia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Daboecia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daboecia/). Accessed 2023-12-11.

Family

Ericaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

inflorescence: Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
septicidal: (of fruit) Splitting along the partitions (septa) rather than along the walls of the locules. (Cf. loculicidal.)

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Daboecia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daboecia/). Accessed 2023-12-11.

Daboecia azorica grown by Otto Fauser in the Dandenong Range, Victoria, Australia (November 2012). Image John Grimshaw.

A genus of two species, one of Atlantic Europe from Ireland to Portugal, the other of the Azores. Although classed with the heaths (Erica and Calluna) in gardens, it is more closely allied to such genera as Phyllodoce. Among ericaceous genera of heath-like habit it is distinguished by the elongated, racemose inflorescence; deciduous, urn-shaped corollas, and by the septicidal capsules.

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