Tag Archives | Ericaceae

Ericaceae  are mostly shrubs, rarely trees or undershrub's or trailing or scrambling vines. Leaves are simple, alternate or opposite or whorled, leathery, exstipulate. Inflorescence axillary or terminal clusters or raceme or panicle or flowers solitary and axillary. Flowers are hermaphrodite, usually actinomorphic, hypogynous or rarely epigynous. Calyx 4-7- lobed, persistent; lobes imbricate; sometimes sepals free. Corolla 4-7-lobed, funnel shaped, campanulate [...]