Commemorating St Dabeoc of Ireland.

Low-growing evergreen shrubs to 50 cm tall. Stems with glandular hairs. Leaves 5-10 mm long, alternate, elliptic, silvery below. Flowers in terminal clusters. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla 4-lobed. Stamens 8; summer to autumn. Ovary superior. Fruit a woolly 4-chambered capsule.

Seeds and semi-hardwood cuttings.

Fruit a capsule; calyx and corolla lobes 4; stamens 8.

2 species W and S Europe and Azores.

Munson (1985).

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Ericaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.