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Daboecia

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Noun1.Daboecia - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae
genus Daboecia
dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathers
Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heath - low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple
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Daboecia cantabrica 'Cinderella': white with blush of 'pink, gray-green foliage, 18 inches by 18 inches.
A passion for heathers by Swezey, Lauren Bonar / Sunset
As pointed out by Stevens (1971), Daboecia is rather similar to Erica in its anatomy, having flanges of lignifled tissue in the petiole; it also has small revolute leaves, which are nearly ericoid in form.
Phylogenetic classification of Ericaceae: molecular and morphological ... by Kron, K.A.; Judd, W.S.; Stevens, P.F.; Crayn, D.M.; Anderberg, A.A.; Gadek, P.A.; Quinn, C.J.; Lutey / The Botanical Review
 
 
 
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