Erica can be prostrate or erect, evergreen shrubs with fine, needle-like leaves in whorls, and racemes or panicles of small, bell-shaped or tubular flowers
E. canaliculata is a bushy tree heath making an evergreen shrub to 2m, with tiny, dark green, linear leaves and large sprays of white or pink-tinged bells 3mm in length, with conspicuous protruding brown anthers