Carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum green carpet will reach a height of 0 5m and a spread of 1 5m after 10 20 years.
Carissa green carpet height.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide.
Description a vigorous spreading woody shrub with abundant white gummy sap the carissa may reach a height of 15 to 18 ft 4 5 5 5 m and an equal breadth.
Suggested uses greenhouse drought tolerant beds and borders ground cover.
The tips of the leaves are sharply or bluntly pointed and usually with a mucro a thorn like point.
Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet.
The flowers vary in size up to 35 mm in diameter are pure white and scented like orange blossom.
Foliage is evergreen dark green shiny leathery and thick.
It is slow growing.
She refers to three cultivars green carpet which has small leaves on a plant 60cm in height and a metre across horizontalis which has trailing stems of densely arranged leaves and prostrata which produces more side than top growth and spreads across a metre.
In zulu as well as in the bantu tribes of uganda it is called amathungulu or umthungulu obomvu.
Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub.
Shrub is densely covered.
In afrikaans the fruit is called noem noem.
Macrocarpa deals well with salt laden winds making it a good.
Green carpet is an excellent ground cover with smaller leaves than those of species.
It is commonly known as the natal plum and in south africa the large num num.
This shrub reaches 18 tall and spreads 4.
Beautiful of foliage flower and fruit the thorny carissa carissa grandiflora is primarily an ornamental but the fruits are edible and enjoyable.
Carissa varieties natal plum boxwood beauty and emerald blanket grow slowly can be kept small and have some of the most exquisitely beautiful deep green foliage of all south florida shrubs.
Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to southern africa.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub.
The flower tube is hairy within.
