Carissa Green Carpet Plant

Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet.

Carissa green carpet plant.

Accurately referred to as green carpet it is easy to grow and very tolerant of desert soils. Deep green foliage creates a dense evergreen carpet becoming bronze in winter. This low growing variety forms a dense mat of attractive glossy emerald green foliage set on spiny stems and is accented with sweetly fragrant star shaped bright white flowers appearing predominantly in spring with sporadic bloom throughout the year in milder climates. It attracts butterflies and fruit eating birds to the garden.

Easy care perennial offers an excellent choice for growing between flagstones or growing as a lawn substitute. Strong flower display and a great accent plant with its swollen stems and contorted shapes. It has beautiful quite large scented white flowers and large edible red fruits on and off throughout the year. Tolerates high foot traffic.

Well suited for use as edging groundcover or in containers. Home product carissa macrocarpa green carpet carissa macrocarpa green carpet natal plum carissa family. Glossy green foliage is graced with sweet smelling little white flowers and bright red fruits. As the name might imply carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a low growing variety suitable for low hedges or dense groundcover.

Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a hardy evergreen drought resistant dense spiny dwarf spreading shrublet with leathery dark green glossy leaves. Moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub. Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established.

Green carpet green carpet is a tender compact spreading evergreen shrub with small ovate dark green leaves and cymes of fragrant waxy white flowers in late spring followed by ovoid red to purple black fruit. The dark green leaves of the carissa macrocarpa make this an excellent ground cover for green yards and a beautiful contrast in desert landscapes. Carissa macrocarpa green carpet is a dwarf cultivar of carissa macrocarpa and belongs to the apocynaceae family.