Erect shrub to over 1 m tall. Leaves mostly about 8 mm long in groups of 3-4. Flowers in clusters at the tips of the branches, roundish to tubular to urn-shaped, 10-15 mm long, pink to red; autumn to winter. ['Winter Gem' is a mistaken name for this species which was distributed from New Zealand under this incorrect cultivar name.]
S Africa
Source: (1997). Ericaceae. In: . 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.
Habit compact. Flowers profuse, tubular, bright fire red in late winter and early spring.
Believed to be a cross E. mammosa × E. oatesii.
Perhaps the most successful selection originating from Wittunga Botanic Garden, Adelaide.
