1. Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
   "Craftsmen carved the tree heath roots into elegant smoking pipes";
   - briar, brier, Erica arborea
    
2. Gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
   "Tree heath specimens dominated the rocky hillside";
   - grass tree, Richea pandanifolia

Derived forms: tree heaths

Type of: Australian heath, erica, true heath

Part of: genus Richea, Richea

Encyclopedia: Tree heath