The white heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
The flowering plant Erica arborea, native to east Africa and the Mediterranean.
Erica scoparia (green heath, besom heath, broom heath)
Dracophyllum arboreum (Chatham tree heath)
especially Trochocarpa laurina of Australia and New Zealand.
Other plants of genus Erica of similar habit
Ecological domains characterized by large numbers of such species of ericaceous plants.