Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ERICACEOUS
ERICACEOUS
Definitions of ERICACEOUS
- acidic, acid-based
- (botany) Of or pertaining to the heath family (Ericaceae).
- (especially of a plant) Acid-loving, thriving in acidic conditions.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ERICACEOUS in a Sentence
- These peat accumulations then provide habitat for a wide array of peatland plants, including sedges and ericaceous shrubs, as well as orchids and carnivorous plants.
- One notable project was his study of the Mendocino pygmy forest, a remarkable community of ericaceous and coniferous plant species whose stunted growth and grotesquely twisted morphology reveal a long and tortured struggle for survival on a 500,000-year-old marine terrace.
- Like most other ericaceous plants, Gaultheria species do best in peaty soil that never fully dries out.
- Dominant species include little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), and low ericaceous shrubs (Family: Ericaceae).
- Ericoid mycorrhizas are characterized by fungal coils that form in the epidermal cells of the fine hair roots of ericaceous species.
- Rhododendron calendulaceum commonly occurs with other ericaceous shrubs including Rhododendron maximum, Kalmia latifolia, Vaccinium corymbosum, and Gaylussacia spp.
- It occurs in various habitats, such as bushveld, thornveld, sourveld, wooded slopes, rocky hillsides, miombo and ericaceous fynbos.
- The Montane room conserves species such as fagaceous, ericaceous, and orchidaceous plants with high diversities in South-east Asia.
- On the drier western, northern and eastern slopes Stoebe kilimandscharica (Seriphium kilimandscharicum) bushes replace ericaceous heath, with Artemisia afra, Anthospermum usambarense and Adenocarpus mannii.
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