The flower tube is hairy within.
Carissa green carpet height.
Carissa macrocarpa is a shrub native to southern africa.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet low growing natal plum boething treeland farms grows over 1 200 varieties of trees shrubs perennials and specialty plants on ten california nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the western united states and beyond.
Foliage is evergreen dark green shiny leathery and thick.
Green carpet is an excellent ground cover with smaller leaves than those of species.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderately fast growing spreading evergreen broadleaf shrub.
Shrub is densely covered.
It is commonly known as the natal plum and in south africa the large num num.
Emerald blanket is the dwarf cultivar and its low spreading habit makes it an ideal ground cover shrub.
Prefers sun or partial shade regular water drought tolerant once established.
The flowers vary in size up to 35 mm in diameter are pure white and scented like orange blossom.
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.
It is slow growing.
Leaves are leathery a shiny dark green above and paler below 20 60 x 15 35 mm egg shaped oval or almost round.
Suggested uses greenhouse drought tolerant beds and borders ground cover.
This shrub reaches 18 tall and spreads 4.
Grows 10 15 inches tall and can spread about 3 4 feet.
Carissa macrocarpa green carpet green carpet natal plum moderate growing evergreen shrub to 12 15 tall x 4 5 wide.
In afrikaans the fruit is called noem noem.
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.
In zulu as well as in the bantu tribes of uganda it is called amathungulu or umthungulu obomvu.
Beautiful of foliage flower and fruit the thorny carissa carissa grandiflora is primarily an ornamental but the fruits are edible and enjoyable.
The tips of the leaves are sharply or bluntly pointed and usually with a mucro a thorn like point.
