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Erica arborea

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Noun1.Erica arborea - evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipesErica arborea - evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
tree heath, briar, brier
erica, true heath - any plant of the genus Erica
briarroot - hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea
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So, with a name like Erica arborea 'Albert's Gold', the word Erica tells you that the plant is a heather (all ericas are heathers), the arborea shows it's a tree variety (arbor is tree in Latin), while 'Albert's Gold' indicates the plant was named after an Albert somewhere and that it is gold in either leaf or flower.
Latin name adds detail; Gardens by Birmingham Mail (England)
So with a name like Erica arborea 'Albert's Gold', the word Erica tells you that the plant is a heather (all ericas are heathers), the arborea shows it's a tree variety (arbor is tree in Latin), while 'Albert's Gold' indicates the plant was named after an Albert somewhere and that it is gold in either leaf or flower.
It's all in the name; Baffled by the names of plants? Hannah ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
So, with a name like Erica arborea Albert's Gold, the word Erica tells you that the plant is a heather (all ericas are heathers) the arborea shows it's a tree variety (arbor is tree in Latin), while Albert's Gold indicates the plant was named after an Albert somewhere and that it is gold in leaf or flower.
Playing the name game by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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