Erica canaliculata Andrews

Erect shrub up to 1.9 m (6 ft) and more. Branches ascending, greyish-puberulous, in some specimens floccose with minute compound hairs, with many, spreading, copiously floriferous branchlets. Leaves 3-nate, 4-10 mm long, erect-spreading, linear, deeply sulcate to open-backed, showing a paler tomentulose undersurface, scabrid-puberulous above sometimes becoming glabrous and smooth. Flowers normally 3-nate but often by arrest of the lateral branchlets appearing umbellate, subcorolline; peduncles 4-4.5 mm.long, slender, puberulous; bracts basal, minute. Calyx glabrous, roughly papillose, pallid outside, red within, the central line closely adpressed to the corolla, deeply 4-fid; lobes ovate, acute, 2-4 times the length of the tube, ciliate at the base, sides more or less strongly reflexed and the whole then tetragonous and 1.5-2 mm long, reaching generally about 1/2 the height of the corolla. Corolla 3-3.5 mm long, broadish-cyathiform or subcampanulate, tetragonous, glabrous, rosy; lobes about 1/2 as long as the tube not, or slightly, spreading, broad, obtuse. Anthers subexserted or only manifest, about 1 mm long, lateral, oblong, obtuse, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell. Ovary subglobose, velvety or glabrous; style long-exserted, slender; stigma simple.

Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs stratification.