Erica x darleyensis f. albiflora D.C.McClint.

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The New York Botanical Garden The Urban Botanist Course, NYU 2024
Ericaceae
Scientific name: Erica x darleyensis f. albiflora ‘Silberschmelze’
Determined by: NYBG accession label; 267/2017*A Origin of material: Cultivated at the NYBG Location: United States of America. New York. Bronx Co. New York City, Grounds of the New York Botanical Garden; grassy subsection N of the Native Plant Garden and SW of the Rock Garden, NE comer of the large boulder 40.86440°, -73.87890°
Habitat: In and at the bottom of a large boulder. Grows with many other of the same species, grasses, various cultivars of Scilla siberica, Puschkinia scilloides ‘Alba’, among others.
Plant description: Evergreen shrub, 18 cm tall, grows in clumps, about 0.7 m wide. Dark green small needle-like leaves in whorls, small bright reddish-pink bell-shaped downwards drooping flowers.
Date of collection: 1 April 2024
Collector name & Collection number: Joyce Zhang 004
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