What is Ericales?
{{Taxobox | name = Ericales | image = RhododendronSimsiiFlowers2.jpg | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''Rhododendron simsii'' | regnum = [[Plantae]] | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = '''Ericales''' | ordo_authority = [[Barthélemy Charles Joseph du Mortier|Dumort.]], 1829}} [[File:Blueberry-rubel-flowers.jpg|thumb|[[Blueberry]] flowers]] The '''Ericales''' are a large and diverse [[Order (biology)|order]] of [[dicotyledon]]s, including for example [[azalea]] (''Rhododendron''), [[blueberry]] (''Vaccinium myrtillus''), [[grass tree]] (''Dracophyllum''), [[lúcuma]] (''Pouteria lucuma''), [[kiwifruit]] (''Actinidia deliciosa''), and [[tea]] (''Camellia sinensis''). The order includes [[tree]]s and [[Shrub|bushes]], [[liana]]s and [[herbaceous plant]]s. Many species have five petals, fused together. This was used to place the order in the subclass Sympetalae.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Robyns|first=W.|title=Outline of a new system of orders and families of Sympetalae |journal=Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National Belgique|date= 1972|volume=42|issue=4|pages=363–372|doi=10.2307/3667661|jstor=3667661}}<!--|accessdate=23 October 2011--></ref> [[Mycorrhiza]] is often found in Ericales. == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Ericales| ]]