Erica discolor is an attractive, hardy species which is a highly desirable plant for gardens.
It flowers prolifically over many months grows well in pots and is a good cut flower, but does need regular pruning.
The flowers are long, curved and tubular sometimes sticky to the touch and varying from pink to dark orange with either yellow or white ends.
There are some greenish flowered forms too.
This is a very variable species, often getting confused with Erica versicolor and Erica unicolor.
It is not just variable in its flower colours, but in its actual form - being seen as both single stemmed, erect and sparsely branched while also found as a dense multi-stemmed and sprouting shrub - the latter is most common.