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Erica turgida, the showy heath or Kenilworth heath, is a species of Erica that was naturally restricted to the city of Cape Town, South Africa, but is now classified as Extinct in the Wild. This small, delicate erica produces thin, willowy stems, covered in velvety hair. It produces masses of bright-pink, cup-shaped flowers. Along with its fellow extinct-in-the-wild heath, Erica verticillata, it is now being re-introduced to the Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area, now that the spread of the invasive alien vegetation there has been controlled.

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  • Erica turgida, the showy heath or Kenilworth heath, is a species of Erica that was naturally restricted to the city of Cape Town, South Africa, but is now classified as Extinct in the Wild. This small, delicate erica produces thin, willowy stems, covered in velvety hair. It produces masses of bright-pink, cup-shaped flowers. This Erica used to grow naturally in the area that is now beneath the Cape Town suburbs of Rondebosch, Kenilworth and Wynberg. It was therefore an endemic to the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos vegetation type. Soon before the last wild population died out at Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area, a woman named Elsie Esterhuizen took cuttings to Kirstenbosch gardens and thus saved the species from permanent extinction. Along with its fellow extinct-in-the-wild heath, Erica verticillata, it is now being re-introduced to the Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area, now that the spread of the invasive alien vegetation there has been controlled. (en)
  • Erica turgida adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Ericaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Ericales. Spesies Erica turgida sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Erica. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Salisb.. (in)
  • Erica turgida är en ljungväxtart som beskrevs av Richard Anthony Salisbury. Erica turgida ingår i släktet klockljungssläktet, och familjen ljungväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. (sv)
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  • Erica turgida adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Ericaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Ericales. Spesies Erica turgida sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Erica. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Salisb.. (in)
  • Erica turgida är en ljungväxtart som beskrevs av Richard Anthony Salisbury. Erica turgida ingår i släktet klockljungssläktet, och familjen ljungväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life. (sv)
  • Erica turgida, the showy heath or Kenilworth heath, is a species of Erica that was naturally restricted to the city of Cape Town, South Africa, but is now classified as Extinct in the Wild. This small, delicate erica produces thin, willowy stems, covered in velvety hair. It produces masses of bright-pink, cup-shaped flowers. Along with its fellow extinct-in-the-wild heath, Erica verticillata, it is now being re-introduced to the Kenilworth Racecourse Conservation Area, now that the spread of the invasive alien vegetation there has been controlled. (en)
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  • Erica turgida (en)
  • Erica turgida (in)
  • Erica turgida (sv)
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