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The heather family - ericaceae- includes about 200 species of plants
scattered throughout the world. They are mainly bushes or little trees. Some
of them, as the azaleas,
have a very big importance in gardening. Other, as the Rhododendrons,
besides being used as medicinal plants in spite of their toxic components, play
a fundamental part as protectors of the erosion in most of the mountains of
the world except in Australia or África, by being located in superior
heights to 2000 m.
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Erica Rubrocalyx |
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| Leaves ( 1 ) : simple, generally perennial, without stipules. | |
| Stems ( 2 ): Ligneous. | |
| Flowers : With radial symmetry. |
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| Calyx ( 3 ) : 4-6 free sepals. | |
| Corolla ( 4 ) : 4- 5 joined petals, tubullar- shaped. | |
| Stamens : Generally with the double length of sepals, with anthers inverted. | |
| Ovary : superior , only in Vaccinium is inferior. | |
| style : 1 | |
| Fruit: Capsule.. Sometimes a berry |
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GENERA
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The most remarkable ones are the following:
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