#ericas

[lost-lycaon]

Fynbos plants, like this erica bush, look wonderfully alien. You find flora on the Western Cape of South Africa unlike anywhere else.

[witchstone]

Bottle Green Heath  Erica sessiliflora Caledon, South Africa -34.207983, 18.961684 by carinalochner

[cartoon-goon02]

Old woman Josie, also known as my second favorite character (after precious Cecil) and her nonexistant, not real, very not there angel frens.

[lost-lycaon]

Marsh heath, Erica verticillata. A member of the Erica family of the Cape Fynbos floral kingdom, this was commonly found on the Cape flats east of Cape Town. With steady habitat destruction it is now extinct in the wild.

[lost-lycaon]

Erica flowers from the sandveld fynbos.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n10_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The heathery, or, A monograph of the genus Erica : London :Henry G. Bohn,1845. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58160792

[floralorenda]